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I'm a beginner at coding.

I want to make an interactive web map app that can incorporate data from many sources. I'm using Visual Studio Code for this because it has a automatic server extension. I'd like to use the Global 250 m water map from Earth data. It's available as a separate layer.

https://nasa-gibs.github.io/gibs-api-docs/available-visualizations/

Since I only want to use this one layer and maybe a few other ones, I don't want to download the whole data set. Can someone guide me as to how I can incorporate just these few layers onto my own map? Any help is appreciated, thank you!

Hello! The Global Imagery Browse Services API documentation site is probably the best place to get started. On the "Accessing via Map Libraries and GDAL Scripts" page - https://nasa-gibs.github.io/gibs-api-docs/map-library-usage/, you will find a link to the "GIBS Web Examples" GitHub area - https://github.com/nasa-gibs/gibs-web-examples#gibs-web-examples. Here you'll see live examples of how we've built simple web mapping applications using open source libraries that display imagery layers.

On the "Access Basics" page (https://nasa-gibs.github.io/gibs-api-docs/access-basics/) you'll find more information on how to use different service endpoints to pull imagery into your web map app.

Also, if you want to see how the imagery looks in an existing web map application, please check out NASA Worldview, https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov.