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exclude layers option

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
api

Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by locating the existing layers option and its query entry point; then verify that an excludeLayers option excludes only the named layers while other layers remain queryable.

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Description

For usability, it'd be nice to have an option named excludeLayers that is the same thing as layers but purely for saying "do not query these layers". This is helpful when you specifically don't want a particular layer in tilesets with many layers, like Mapbox Streets, but don't want to list all of the layers out.

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JavaScript
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Forks
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