Get coordinates of the mouse pointer
This example uses the mousemove
event to get two values from the MapMouseEvent
object: the x-y point
coordinates of the mouse cursor on the HTML map container and the lngLat
coordinates of the cursor on the map. It displays both coordinates in an HTML overlay.
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8" /><title>Get coordinates of the mouse pointer</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><style type="text/css">#info {display: block;position: relative;margin: 0px auto;width: 50%;padding: 10px;border: none;border-radius: 3px;font-size: 12px;text-align: center;color: #222;background: #fff;}</style><div id="map"></div><pre id="info"></pre><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', // container idstyle: 'Streets',center: [-74.5, 40], // starting positionzoom: 9 // starting zoom}); map.on('mousemove', (e) => {document.getElementById('info').innerHTML =// e.point is the x, y coordinates of the mousemove event relative// to the top-left corner of the mapJSON.stringify(e.point) +'<br />' +// e.lngLat is the longitude, latitude geographical position of the eventJSON.stringify(e.lngLat.wrap());});</script> </body></html>