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mapboxgl-spiderifier
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Spiderify markers on mapbox-gl using marker overlays. Note it does not create the spiderfication in the canvas but on a overlay on top of the canvas. This uses mapboxgl.Marker to create markers and spider legs.
Spiral/Circle positioning logic taken from and credits goes to https://github.com/jawj/OverlappingMarkerSpiderfier.
Mapboxgl-js has exposed getClusterLeaves/getClusterChildren (from supercluster) in version v0.47.0. Thereby, now we can get the features within a cluster from mapboxgl and spiderfy them using this library.
var features = [
{id: 0, type: 'car', color: 'red'},
{id: 1, type: 'bicycle', color: '#ff00ff'},
{id: 2, type: 'bus', color: 'blue'},
{id: 3, type: 'cab', color: 'orange'},
{id: 4, type: 'train', color: 'red'}
];
var map = new mapboxgl.Map({
container: 'map',
style: 'mapbox://styles/mapbox/streets-v9',
center: [-74.50, 40],
zoom: 9
});
var spiderifier = new MapboxglSpiderifier(map, {
onClick: function(e, spiderLeg){
console.log('Clicked on ', spiderLeg);
},
markerWidth: 40,
markerHeight: 40,
});
map.on('style.load', function() {
spiderifier.spiderfy([-74.50, 40], features);
});
map.on('click', function(){
spiderifier.unspiderfy();
});
Refer Example 3
map.on('style.load', function() {
map.on('click', mouseClick);
});
function mouseClick(e) {
var features = map.queryRenderedFeatures(e.point, {
layers: [<<id of the layer containing the cluster>>]
});
spiderifier.unspiderfy();
if (!features.length) {
return;
} else {
map.getSource(<<source Id of the source containing the cluster>>).getClusterLeaves(
features[0].properties.cluster_id,
100,
0,
function(err, leafFeatures){
if (err) {
return console.error('error while getting leaves of a cluster', err);
}
var markers = _.map(leafFeatures, function(leafFeature){
return leafFeature.properties;
});
spiderifier.spiderfy(features[0].geometry.coordinates, markers);
}
);
}
}
var spiderifier = new MapboxglSpiderifier(map, {
customPin: true,
initializeLeg: function(spiderLeg) {
var $spiderPinCustom = $('<div>', {class: 'spider-point-circle'});
$(spiderLeg.elements.pin).append($spiderPinCustom);
$spiderPinCustom.css({
'width': '10px',
'height':'10px',
'margin-left': '-5px',
'margin-top': '-5px',
'background-color': spiderLeg.feature.color,
'opacity': 0.8
});
var popup = new mapboxgl.Popup({
closeButton: true,
closeOnClick: false,
offset: MapboxglSpiderifier.popupOffsetForSpiderLeg(spiderLeg)
});
popup.setHTML('Feature type is ' + spiderLeg.feature.type);
spiderLeg.mapboxMarker.setPopup(popup);
$(spiderLeg.elements.container)
.on('mouseenter', function(){
popup.addTo(map);
})
.on('mouseleave', function(){
popup.remove();
});
}
})
new MapboxglSpiderifier(map, options)
Constructs a mapboxgl spiderifier.
map (mapbox gl map mandatory).options (object optional)
options.animate (boolean default: false)options.animationSpeed (number default: 200) number in milliseconds (animation speed)options.circleSpiralSwitchover (number default: 9) number of markers till which the spider will
be circular and beyond this threshold, it will spider in spiral.options.customPin (boolean default: false)options.initializeLeg (function) function to provide a custom marker/popup for markers
options.onClick (function)
spiderLeg Passed in options.initializeLeg/options.onClick(callbacks) and in spideifier.each (iterator) function.
{
feature: <object>,
elements: {
container: <DomElement>,
line: <DomElement>,
pin: <DomElement>,
},
mapboxMarker: <mapboxgl.Marker instance>,
params:{
x: <number horizontal offset of pin from the center of spider>,
y: <number vertical offset of pin from the center of spider>,
angle: <number angle of line from the center of spider>,
legLength: <number leg line length>,
index: <number index of spider leg>
}
}
each(function(spiderLeg) {...} ) Iterates over the currently spiderfied legs.
function(spiderLeg) Function gets called once for every spider leg.spiderfy(latLng, features) Spiderfies and displays given markers on the specified lat lng.
latLng new mapboxgl.LngLat(-122.420679, 37.772537); OR [-122.420679, 37.772537];features array of plain objects.unspiderfy() Unspiderfies markers, if any spiderfied already.
MapboxglSpiderifier.popupOffsetForSpiderLeg(spiderLeg) returns an offset object that can be
passed to mapboxgl's popup so that the popup will be positioned next to the pin rather than the center
of the spider.
1.0.8 -
// Old:
initializeMarker(markerObject) {
// markerObject => {
// marker: {...}, // changed to feature
// elements: {
// parent: <...>,
// line: <...>,
// marker: <...>, // changed to pin
// },
// "mapboxMarker":{...},
// "spiderParam":{
// "x":-4.373587244338389,
// "y":14.3482310622655,
// "angle":1.8666666666666667,
// "legLength":15,
// "index":0
// }
// }
// ...
}
// New:
initializeLeg(spiderLeg) {
// spiderLeg => {
// feature: {...},
// elements: {
// container: <...>,
// line: <...>,
// pin: <...>,
// },
// "mapboxMarker":{...},
// "params":{
// "x":-4.373587244338389,
// "y":14.3482310622655,
// "angle":1.8666666666666667,
// "legLength":15,
// "index":0
// }
// }
// ...
}
// Old
// .spidered-marker
// | - .line-div
// | - .icon-div
// New
// .spider-leg
// | - .spider-leg-line
// | - .spider-leg-pin
Moving ./lib/mapbox-gl-spiderifier.css to ./index.css
Moving ./lib/mapbox-gl-spiderifier.js to ./index.js
FAQs
Spiderify markers on mapbox-gl using marker overlays.
The npm package mapboxgl-spiderifier receives a total of 4,705 weekly downloads. As such, mapboxgl-spiderifier popularity was classified as popular.
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