I have a list of addresses and would like to know how far they are from the Mexican border. Is that possible?
Personally I would add a shape file of Mexico to the map in GeoJSON as a layer.
Then you can use turf.js to calculate the distance between your point (which you can geocode) into GeoJson and the GeoJson geometry.
This is a good tutorial which introduces turf.js and distance calculation (presumably you are opting to use Mapbox GL).
https://www.mapbox.com/help/analysis-with-turf/
This is a good start you can amend this to add your own Mexican Shape geometry.
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I'm fairly new to Leaflet library and I would like to ask if following functionality is somehow already implemented in Leaflet(or maybe in some other library).
I've found the following example which does clustering based on markers on the map and map also contains choropleth areas displayed.
My question is - Is it possible to do clustering based on choropleth data? Like if I have geojson data for some regions and would also have geojson data of subregions for every region. So if I do zooming then those subregions would collapse to big regions or big regions would be divided to small ones?
Big thanks for any advices or links!
No, because clustering algorithms work only on point data.
You might want to just hide the regions and display the "subregions" when zooming in.
If data becomes too dense when zooming out, consider making the union of the polygon geometries to display that instead. A naïve algorithm would be search for the smallest polygon, then search for the smallest neighboring polygon, replace them by their union, repeat. Stop the algorithm when the smallest polygon is larger than a given threshold.
I am looking for a way to display a polygonmarker instead of a circlemarker in leaflet.
I am not looking for a way to draw a polygon on the map, because I need it to be the same size independent of zoomlevel.
Drawing a polygon also requires multiple coordinates which I don't have.
example: There is a spot on a mountain that allows to start flying here in winddirections from North to Southwest.
I want to draw a cone in those directions.
Can this be done in leaflet? I've looked around but can't find a solution to this.
If not, any suggestions?
Google Maps has the function isLocationOnEdge(point, polyline, tolerance) that takes a tolerance value in degrees and uses it to determine whether a point falls near a polyline.
Is there anything similar in Leaflet(or some plug-in) that does the same thing?
A handful library for such operation is Turf.
For your case, a simple approach would be to:
Create a polygon out of your polyline using turf.buffer with appropriate "tolerance" (Turf takes a distance at Earth surface, or degrees).
Check whether your point is within that polygon or not using turf.inside.
Unfortunately, turf.buffer is only an approximation, it does not takes geodesy into account… therefore for big tolerance you will have a deformed shape.
An exact method could be to:
Use instead turf.pointOnLine to find the nearest point of the polyline.
turf.distance to measure the distance between those 2 points, and compare with your tolerance (or even just Leaflet latLng.distanceTo, but you would have to convert GeoJSON points back to Leaflet LatLngs).
I would like to add placemarks to parts of collada geometry in google earth. To do this I need to translate the geometry coordinates in the xml to match the transformation to the model in google earth. Given longitude latitude and orientation how do I translate geometry coordinate to match the google earth transformation?
I believe models are located on the earth using only 1 coordinate which is used to position the 'center' of the model. How that is determined I am not sure, and might even depend on the kind/shape of the model.
The coordinate is easily found in the kml structure for the model which is referenced here
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/models.html
Determining how far a certain part of your geometry is from the middle might be very complex but here is an example of some code that will provide you the distance between two points.
http://earth-api-utility-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/extensions/examples/ruler.html
It is based upon the google earth extensions (gex) library
http://code.google.com/p/earth-api-utility-library/
Perhaps you could use SketchUp to help determine the location of your points of interest within the geometry?
http://sketchup.google.com/
I'm using Geoserver version 2.1.1, Postgres 9 and PostGIS 2.0
What I want to achieve should (i think!) be quite straight forward. I want to render on a map a line that represents the Great Circle between two cities on the earths surface.
My database contains the city locations represented as geography points defined as latitude and lonfitude pairs.
I have a layer defining an SQL view in Geoserver which retrieves a linestring (st_makeline) from the two coordinates for the specified cities. I'm having to type cast the geographies to geometries to get this to work.
But when I draw the returned line on a map what i get is a straight line and not the curved line that I am expecting.
Can someone tell me how I should be going about this?
Thanks!
PostGIS offers mainly "constructors" of the base geometries point, linestring and polygone, like ST_MakeLine.
And what yo uwant to do depends also on the coordinate reference system you use when displaying your map layers.
Here's a nice trick about great circles or parts of:
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/5204/curved-point-to-point-route-maps
Yours, Stefan
P.S. Here's some related stuff:
Drawing circles on a sphere
And here's some math:
http://www.mathworks.ch/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/277881
I had a similar problem in cartodb (which also uses PostGIS); I wanted to get curved lines from straight lines. Maybe this post can help.