diff --git a/src/components/src/index.ts b/src/components/src/index.ts
index 0415805009..0f789b618e 100644
--- a/src/components/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/components/src/index.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import {appInjector} from './container';
 export {default as KeplerGl, default, injectComponents, ContainerFactory, ERROR_MSG} from './container';
 
 // factories
-export {default as KeplerGlFactory, DEFAULT_KEPLER_GL_PROPS, getVisibleDatasets, makeGetActionCreators, mapFieldsSelector, plotContainerSelector} from './kepler-gl';
+export {default as KeplerGlFactory, DEFAULT_KEPLER_GL_PROPS, getVisibleDatasets, makeGetActionCreators, mapFieldsSelector, plotContainerSelector, sidePanelSelector} from './kepler-gl';
 export {default as SidePanelFactory} from './side-panel';
 export {default as PanelTitleFactory} from './side-panel/panel-title';
 export {default as MapContainerFactory, Attribution} from './map-container';
diff --git a/src/layers/src/base-layer.ts b/src/layers/src/base-layer.ts
index 9db490dda3..b52e826665 100644
--- a/src/layers/src/base-layer.ts
+++ b/src/layers/src/base-layer.ts
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ export type LayerBaseConfig = {
   dataId: string;
   label: string;
   color: RGBColor;
+  colorScale?: VisualChannelScale;
+  colorField?: VisualChannelField;
+  colorDomain?: VisualChannelDomain;
 
   columns: LayerColumns;
   isVisible: boolean;
@@ -459,9 +462,9 @@ class Layer {
 
       // TODO: refactor this into separate visual Channel config
       // color by field, domain is set by filters, field, scale type
-      colorField: null,
-      colorDomain: [0, 1],
-      colorScale: SCALE_TYPES.quantile,
+      colorField: props.colorField || null,
+      colorDomain: props.colorDomain || [0, 1],
+      colorScale: props.colorScale || SCALE_TYPES.quantile,
 
       // color by size, domain is set by filters, field, scale type
       sizeDomain: [0, 1],
diff --git a/src/layers/src/layer-utils.ts b/src/layers/src/layer-utils.ts
index 96ddb07319..f93b31face 100644
--- a/src/layers/src/layer-utils.ts
+++ b/src/layers/src/layer-utils.ts
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ export function getGeojsonLayerMetaFromArrow({
           chunkOffset: geoColumn.data[0].length * chunkIndex
         }
       : {}),
-    triangulate: true,
+    triangulate: false,
     calculateMeanCenters: true
   };
   // create binary data from arrow data for GeoJsonLayer
diff --git a/src/schemas/src/vis-state-schema.ts b/src/schemas/src/vis-state-schema.ts
index 47bafb75cd..d661d436f7 100644
--- a/src/schemas/src/vis-state-schema.ts
+++ b/src/schemas/src/vis-state-schema.ts
@@ -530,6 +530,9 @@ export const layerPropsV1 = {
       dataId: null,
       label: null,
       color: null,
+      colorScale: null,
+      colorField: null,
+      colorDomain: null,
       highlightColor: null,
       columns: new ColumnSchemaV1({
         version: VERSIONS.v1,