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Mapbox Cookbook

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Mapbox Cookbook

Overview of this book

Maps are an essential element in today’s location aware applications. Right from displaying earth surface information to creating thematic maps displaying plethora of information, most of the developers lack the necessary knowledge to create customizable maps with combination of various tools and libraries. The MapBox platform is one such platform which offers all the tools and API required to create and publish a totally customizable map. Starting with building your first map with the online MapBox Editor, we will take you all the way to building advanced web and mobile applications with totally customizable map styles. Through the course of chapters we’ll learn CartoCSS styling language and understand the various components of MapBox platform and their corresponding JavaScript API. In the initial few chapters we will dive deeper into the TileMill and MapBox Studio components of MapBox and use them to generate custom styled map tiles and vector maps. Furthermore, we will publish these custom maps using PHP, node.js and third party tools like Geoserver. We’ll also learn to create different visualizations and map styles like a choropleth map, a heat map and add user interactivity using a UFTGrid. Moving on, we dive into advanced concepts and focus on integration with third party services like Foursquare, Google FusionTables, CartoDB, and Torque to help you populate and even animate your maps. In the final chapter we’ll learn to use the Mapbox SDK to create and publish interactive maps for the iOS platform. By the end of this book, you will learn about MapBox GL and how to create a fully functional, location-aware mobile app, using the maps styles created in the recipes.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Mapbox Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with controls


In this recipe, we will learn how to add controls to the map. Actually, our maps already use controls. The zoom control in the upper-left corner and the attribution in the lower-right corner are examples of controls.

How to do it…

We need to do the following:

  1. Create a control and customize it by passing the options.

  2. Add the control to the map.

Adding a zoom control to the map

Perform the following steps:

  1. Open the chapter-4-example-13-controls folder in your favorite text editor. The project is already configured and has a base layer.

  2. In main.js, let's modify the map to disable the default controls via the following code:

        var map = L.map('map', {
          zoomControl: false,
          attributionControl: false
        }).setView(latlong, 15);

    This will disable the zoom and attribution controls. We will then add our own.

  3. Let's add the zoom control first. Execute the following code:

        var zoomControl = L.control.zoom({position: 'topright', zoomInTitle: 'Click to zoom in', zoomOutTitle...