Mapbox GL JS: Control max zoom with geolocation control? - mapbox

I am using Mapbox GL JS v0.32.1 and I have a geolocation control on my map.
I would like to make it so that the maximum zoom when the user geolocates is 8, so that the map zooms to the user's approximate location, not street location.
According to the documentation there should be a geolocate event available, but this isn't working for me:
var geoLocate = map.addControl(new mapboxgl.GeolocateControl());
geoLocate.on('geolocate', function(e) {
console.log('geolocated');
map.setZoom(8);
})
Geolocating (in Chrome at least) still zooms to the maximum zoom level available, and I don't see a console log message when it happens.

Map#addControl returns Map. The geolocate event is fired on GeolocateControl. The following should work:
var geoLocate = new mapboxgl.GeolocateControl();
map.addControl(geoLocate);
geoLocate.on('geolocate', function(e) {
console.log('geolocated');
map.setZoom(8);
});

Try this way. smooth zoom to your location
var geoLocate = new mapboxgl.GeolocateControl();
map.addControl(geoLocate);
geoLocate.on('geolocate', function(e) {
map.flyTo({
center:[e.coords.longitude, e.coords.latitude],
zoom:16 //set zoom
});
});

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Is there any trick to achieve that? Currently I'm trying to work with mapbox events zoomend and move. Unfortunately zoom throws too many events and the map is lagging like hell:
let markerLocation = map.getCenter();
const marker = new mapboxgl.Marker()
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map.on(`zoomend`, (e) => {
map.flyTo({
center: markerLocation,
});
});
map.on(`move`, (e) => {
if (map.isZooming()) {
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Please find the JsFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/pawelol/kpu8nzh9/2/
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zoomControl: false
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//add tile layers
var basemapLayer = new
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Mapbox GL JS Bearing

Is it possible in Mapbox GL JS to get the users bearing?
I would like to show the direction in which the user is facing, to assist them in navigating to nearby POI.
I understand that it is possible to set the bearing of the map and also get the current bearing of it, but i need the actual real life bearing of the user.
Kind of the same thing as on Google Maps:
The service is intended to run as an Ionic app on iOS and Android, and the assistance in bearing is a key feature in helping them locate nearby POI on a well populated map.
You can get the user's bearing (if their device has such a sensor) by obtaining a Coordinates object from Gelocation#getCurrentPosition() and reading Coordinates#heading.
Mapbox GL JS has no built-in user interface for displaying a user's heading. Building your own user interface is easy. See this example which uses the symbol-rotation property.
So, after some time spend on this, i thought I'd show how i ended up doing this, in case someone else needs it or have a better solution.
It seems cordova has a built in "heading" property in the position object.
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-geolocation
var heading = $rootScope.position.heading;
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map.on('rotate', function(){
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map.addSource('drone', {type: 'geojson', data: point });
map.addLayer({
"id": "drone",
"type": "symbol",
"source": "drone"
}
});
Next i check that heading is actually available, since it only appears to return a value, when the user is moving(only tested on Android so far), and if it is, update the heading of the point.
if($rootScope.position.heading){
var heading = $rootScope.position.heading;
map.setLayoutProperty('drone', 'icon-rotate', $rootScope.position.heading);
};
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map.getSource('drone').setData(point);
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For the users coming here after 2020 (what an year lol), mapbox gl js now supports geolocation which not only provides user's heading but also a bunch of other helpful data:
const geolocate = map.addControl(
new mapboxgl.GeolocateControl({
positionOptions: {
enableHighAccuracy: true
},
trackUserLocation: true
})
)
then listen for geolocate event:
geolocate.on('geolocate', (e) => {
console.log(e);
});
this will give you following object:
{
coords: {
accuracy: number;
altitude: number;
altitudeAccuracy: number;
heading: number;
latitude: number;
longitude: number;
speed: number;
};
timestamp: number;
heading will give you direction of the user. As the geolocate control keeps triggering automatically so can get the user's direction as well as speed and altitude etc in real time and use that to display data driven symbols on map.

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I am using Mapbox GL directions plugin inside my app where I set the origin on map load and set driving destination upon user click on any location on the map. I am now trying to remove the top left search origin / destination box yet after extensive research can't figure out how to do so, can someone please help by telling me how to do so? Thanks.
Code I am using in my app below:
var map = new mapboxgl.Map({
container: 'map',
style: 'mapbox://styles/mapbox/streets-v8',
center: [userCoordinates.coords.longitude, userCoordinates.coords.latitude],
zoom: 15
});
var directions = new mapboxgl.Directions({
unit: 'metric',
profile: 'driving'
});
map.addControl(directions);
directions.setOrigin([userCoordinates.coords.longitude, userCoordinates.coords.latitude]);
map.on('click', function(e) {
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if (!features.length) {
return;
}
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});
I couldn’t figure this out either since there is no documentation, but finally I read through the mapbox-gl-directions.js file and I think I found out how to do it.
In your example, you should embed the controls like this in order to remove the origin / destination box:
var directions = new mapboxgl.Directions({
unit: 'metric',
profile:'driving',
container:'directions', // Specify an element thats not the map container.
// UI controls
controls: {
inputs: false,
instructions: true
}
});
map.addControl(directions);
I'll assume you are using Mapbox GL Javascript, and looking at this example it appears map.addControl(new mapboxgl.Directions()); is what is adding the controller. Within your code you gave you also have this map.addControl(directions);. Try removing it and see what happens.
Hope this helps!

How do I get the latlng after the dragend event in leaflet?

I'm trying to update the lat/lng value of a marker after it is moved. The example provided uses a popup window to display the lat/lng.
I have a "dragend" event listener for the marker, but when I alert the value of e.latlng it returns undefined.
javascript:
function markerDrag(e){
alert("You dragged to: " + e.latlng);
}
function initialize() {
// Initialize the map
var map = L.map('map').setView([38.487, -75.641], 8);
L.tileLayer('http://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
attribution: 'Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA',
maxZoom: 18
}).addTo(map);
// Event Handlers
map.on('click', function(e){
var marker = new L.Marker(e.latlng, {draggable:true});
marker.bindPopup("<strong>"+e.latlng+"</strong>").addTo(map);
marker.on('dragend', markerDrag);
});
}
$(document).ready(initialize());
http://jsfiddle.net/rhewitt/Msrpq/4/
Use e.target.getLatLng() to get the latlng of the updated position.
// Script for adding marker on map click
function onMapClick(e) {
var marker = L.marker(e.latlng, {
draggable:true,
title:"Resource location",
alt:"Resource Location",
riseOnHover:true
}).addTo(map)
.bindPopup(e.latlng.toString()).openPopup();
// #12 : Update marker popup content on changing it's position
marker.on("dragend",function(e){
var chagedPos = e.target.getLatLng();
this.bindPopup(chagedPos.toString()).openPopup();
});
}
JSFiddle demo
latlng value is not in e.latlng but in e.target._latlng .
Use console.
While using e.target._latlng works (as proposed by this other answer), it's better practice to use
e.target.getLatLng();
That way we're not exposing any private variables, as is recommended by Leaflet:
Private properties and methods start with an underscore (_). This doesn’t make them private, just recommends developers not to use them directly.
I think the API changed.
Nowadays is: const { lat, lng } = e.target.getCenter();
if anyone is using react than you should use :
const map = useMap()
map.addEventListener("dragend" , ()=> {
const {lat , lng} = map.getCenter()
})