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Marker Animation

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Demonstrates how to move a feature along a line.

This example shows how to use postrender events and a vector context to animate a marker feature along a line. In this example an encoded polyline is being used.

main.js
import 'ol/ol.css';
import Feature from 'ol/Feature';
import Map from 'ol/Map';
import Point from 'ol/geom/Point';
import Polyline from 'ol/format/Polyline';
import VectorSource from 'ol/source/Vector';
import View from 'ol/View';
import XYZ from 'ol/source/XYZ';
import {
  Circle as CircleStyle,
  Fill,
  Icon,
  Stroke,
  Style,
} from 'ol/style';
import {Tile as TileLayer, Vector as VectorLayer} from 'ol/layer';
import {getVectorContext} from 'ol/render';

const key = 'Get your own API key at https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/';
const attributions =
  '<a href="https://www.maptiler.com/copyright/" target="_blank">&copy; MapTiler</a> ' +
  '<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright" target="_blank">&copy; OpenStreetMap contributors</a>';

const center = [-5639523.95, -3501274.52];
const map = new Map({
  target: document.getElementById('map'),
  view: new View({
    center: center,
    zoom: 10,
    minZoom: 2,
    maxZoom: 19,
  }),
  layers: [
    new TileLayer({
      source: new XYZ({
        attributions: attributions,
        url: 'https://api.maptiler.com/maps/hybrid/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg?key=' + key,
        tileSize: 512,
      }),
    }),
  ],
});

// The polyline string is read from a JSON similiar to those returned
// by directions APIs such as Openrouteservice and Mapbox.
fetch('data/polyline/route.json').then(function (response) {
  response.json().then(function (result) {
    const polyline = result.routes[0].geometry;

    const route = new Polyline({
      factor: 1e6,
    }).readGeometry(polyline, {
      dataProjection: 'EPSG:4326',
      featureProjection: 'EPSG:3857',
    });

    const routeFeature = new Feature({
      type: 'route',
      geometry: route,
    });
    const startMarker = new Feature({
      type: 'icon',
      geometry: new Point(route.getFirstCoordinate()),
    });
    const endMarker = new Feature({
      type: 'icon',
      geometry: new Point(route.getLastCoordinate()),
    });
    const position = startMarker.getGeometry().clone();
    const geoMarker = new Feature({
      type: 'geoMarker',
      geometry: position,
    });

    const styles = {
      'route': new Style({
        stroke: new Stroke({
          width: 6,
          color: [237, 212, 0, 0.8],
        }),
      }),
      'icon': new Style({
        image: new Icon({
          anchor: [0.5, 1],
          src: 'data/icon.png',
        }),
      }),
      'geoMarker': new Style({
        image: new CircleStyle({
          radius: 7,
          fill: new Fill({color: 'black'}),
          stroke: new Stroke({
            color: 'white',
            width: 2,
          }),
        }),
      }),
    };

    const vectorLayer = new VectorLayer({
      source: new VectorSource({
        features: [routeFeature, geoMarker, startMarker, endMarker],
      }),
      style: function (feature) {
        return styles[feature.get('type')];
      },
    });

    map.addLayer(vectorLayer);

    const speedInput = document.getElementById('speed');
    const startButton = document.getElementById('start-animation');
    let animating = false;
    let distance = 0;
    let lastTime;

    function moveFeature(event) {
      const speed = Number(speedInput.value);
      const time = event.frameState.time;
      const elapsedTime = time - lastTime;
      distance = (distance + (speed * elapsedTime) / 1e6) % 2;
      lastTime = time;

      const currentCoordinate = route.getCoordinateAt(
        distance > 1 ? 2 - distance : distance
      );
      position.setCoordinates(currentCoordinate);
      const vectorContext = getVectorContext(event);
      vectorContext.setStyle(styles.geoMarker);
      vectorContext.drawGeometry(position);
      // tell OpenLayers to continue the postrender animation
      map.render();
    }

    function startAnimation() {
      animating = true;
      lastTime = Date.now();
      startButton.textContent = 'Stop Animation';
      vectorLayer.on('postrender', moveFeature);
      // hide geoMarker and trigger map render through change event
      geoMarker.setGeometry(null);
    }

    function stopAnimation() {
      animating = false;
      startButton.textContent = 'Start Animation';

      // Keep marker at current animation position
      geoMarker.setGeometry(position);
      vectorLayer.un('postrender', moveFeature);
    }

    startButton.addEventListener('click', function () {
      if (animating) {
        stopAnimation();
      } else {
        startAnimation();
      }
    });
  });
});
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Marker Animation</title>
    <!-- Pointer events polyfill for old browsers, see https://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer -->
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/elm-pep"></script>
    <!-- The line below is only needed for old environments like Internet Explorer and Android 4.x -->
    <script src="https://cdn.polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=fetch,requestAnimationFrame,Element.prototype.classList,URL,TextDecoder,Number.isInteger"></script>
    <style>
      .map {
        width: 100%;
        height:400px;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map" class="map"></div>
    <label for="speed">
      speed:&nbsp;
      <input id="speed" type="range" min="10" max="999" step="10" value="60">
    </label>
    <button id="start-animation">Start Animation</button>
    <script src="main.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>
package.json
{
  "name": "feature-move-animation",
  "dependencies": {
    "ol": "6.6.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "parcel": "^2.0.0-beta.1"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "parcel index.html",
    "build": "parcel build --public-url . index.html"
  }
}