Animate map camera around a point
This example uses rotateTo
, the JavaScript window.requestAnimationFrame()
method to continuously rotate the map, and the interpolate expression operator to animate the map camera around a point.
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8" /><title>Animate map camera around a point</title><meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no" /><script src="https://cdn.ndrive.com/nmapsgl/v.1.6.8/nmaps-gl.js"></script><link href="https://cdn.ndrive.com/nmapsgl/v.1.6.8/nmaps-gl.css" rel="stylesheet" /><style> body { margin: 0; padding: 0; } #map { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 100%; }</style></head><body><div id="map"></div><script> // TO MAKE THE MAP APPEAR YOU MUST ADD YOUR ACCESS TOKEN nmapsgl.accessToken = '<your access token here>'; const map = new nmapsgl.Map({container: 'map',style: 'Streets',center: [-87.62712, 41.89033],zoom: 15.5,pitch: 45}); function rotateCamera(timestamp) {// clamp the rotation between 0 -360 degrees// Divide timestamp by 100 to slow rotation to ~10 degrees / secmap.rotateTo((timestamp / 100) % 360, { duration: 0 });// Request the next frame of the animation.requestAnimationFrame(rotateCamera);} map.on('load', () => {// Start the animation.rotateCamera(0); // Add 3d buildings and remove label layers to enhance the mapconst layers = map.getStyle().layers;for (let i = 0; i < layers.length; i++) {if (layers[i].type === 'symbol' && layers[i].layout['text-field']) {// remove text labelsmap.removeLayer(layers[i].id);}} map.addLayer({'id': '3d-buildings','source': 'ndrive-map','source-layer': 'building','type': 'fill-extrusion','minzoom': 15,'paint': {'fill-extrusion-color': '#aaa', // use an 'interpolate' expression to add a smooth transition effect to the// buildings as the user zooms in'fill-extrusion-height': ['interpolate',['linear'],['zoom'],15,0,15.05,['get', 'height']],'fill-extrusion-base': ['interpolate',['linear'],['zoom'],15,0,15.05,['get', 'min_height']],'fill-extrusion-opacity': 0.6}});});</script> </body></html>