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mapbox-gl-ogc-feature-collection

A small package for requesting geojson from an OGC Feature API endpoint to serve tiles in MapBox/MapLibre.

Built with inspiration from mapbox-gl-arcgis-featureserver.

Demo

Check out the demo at this link. This demo pulls in large lakes OGC Feature API collection at https://demo.pygeoapi.io/stable. In the demo, we are using the collection lakes.

demo image

Basic Usage

import OGCFeatureCollection from 'mapbox-gl-ogc-feature-collection'

map.on('load', () => {
    const sourceId = 'collection-src'

    new OGCFeatureCollection(sourceId, map, {
        url: 'https://demo.pygeoapi.io/stable',
        collectionId: 'lakes',
        limit: 10000
    })

    map.addLayer({
        'id': 'lyr',
        'source': sourceId,
        'type': 'fill',
        'paint': {
            'fill-color': '#B42222',
            'fill-opacity': 0.7
        }
    })
})

API

This library exposes a single OGCFeatureCollection class

Constructor Options

Option	Type	Description
`sourceId`	`String` required	A string
`map`	`Object` required	A `mapbox-gl` or `maplibre-gl` `map` instance.
`collectionOptions`	`Object` required	A range of options which will be used to manage the collection. See below.
`geojsonSourceOptions`	`Object`	A object which will be passed to the creation of the mapbox-gl geojson source

Collection Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
`url`	`String` required		The base url of the OGC Feature API. `https://demo.pygeoapi.io/covid-19`.
`collectionId`	`String` required		The name of the collection. `cases_country`.
`limit`	`Number`	`5000`	Number of features to return in each tile.
`properties`	`String`		List of properties to return for each feature.
`datetime`	`Date`		Date or date range to filter items.
`useStaticZoomLevel`	`Boolean`	`false`	Whether to only get tiles at a single zoom level. If true then set `minZoom` to the desired level.
`minZoom`	`Number`	if `useStaticZoom` is `true` then `7`, otherwise `2`	The zoom level to start requesting tiles.

Methods

Method	Description
destroySource()	Important The `destroySource()` method removes the source from the map and associated event listeners for retrieving data which request data as the map is panned, so it's important to call this method if removing the layer from the map completely.
disableRequests()	Important The `disableRequests()` method temporarily disables the associated event listeners for retrieving data which request data as the map is panned, you may want to call this if you toggle your layer off.
enableRequests()	Important The `enableRequests()` method enables the associated event listeners for retrieving data which request data as the map is panned. By default this is called by the constructor.

Example of disabling and enabling requests

It would be nice if disabling/enabling of requests happened automatically but unfortunately I haven't found a way to make that happen because of how sources and layers are managed in mapbox-gl.

import OGCFeatureCollection from 'mapbox-gl-ogc-feature-collection'

map.on('load', () => {
    const sourceId = 'collection-src'
    const lyrId = 'lyr'

    const service = new OGCFeatureCollection(sourceId, map, {
        url: 'https://demo.pygeoapi.io/stable',
        collectionId: 'lakes',
        limit: 10000
    })

    map.addLayer({
        'id': 'lyr',
        'source': sourceId,
        'type': 'fill',
        'paint': {
            'fill-color': '#B42222',
            'fill-opacity': 0.7
        }
    })
})
    
    
function hideFsLayer () {
    map.setLayoutProperty(lyrId, 'visibility', 'none')
    service.disableRequests()
}
function showFsLayer () {
    map.setLayoutProperty(lyrId, 'visibility', 'visible')
    service.enableRequests()
}
function removeFsCompletelyFromMap () {
    map.removeLayer(lyrId)
    service.destroySource()
}