Angular Geographic Polyline Map

In Angular map component, you can use the IgxGeographicPolylineSeriesComponent to display geo-spatial data using polylines in a geographic context. This type of geographic series is often used to render roads or connections between geographic locations such as cities or airports.

Angular Geographic Polyline Map Example

The IgxGeographicPolylineSeriesComponent works a lot like the IgxGeographicShapeSeriesComponent except that geo-spatial data is rendered with polylines instead of polygons.

Data Requirements

Similarly to other types of geographic series in the control, the IgxGeographicPolylineSeriesComponent has the ItemsSource property which can be bound to an array of objects. In addition, each data item in this object must have one data column that stores single/multiple shapes using an array of arrays of objects with x and y values representing geographic locations. This data column is then mapped to the shapeMemberPath property. The IgxGeographicPolylineSeriesComponent uses points of this mapped data column to plot polygons in the control.

Code Snippet

The following code shows how to bind the IgxGeographicPolylineSeriesComponent to locations of cities loaded from a shape file using the IgxShapeDataSource.

<div className="sampleRoot" >

        <igx-geographic-map #map
            width="700px"
            height="500px"
            zoomable="true"
            >
        </igx-geographic-map>
</div>
<ng-template let-series="series" let-item="item" #template>
<div>
    <span>
    {{item.country}} {{item.type}}
    </span>
    <br />
    <span>
    Length: {{item.length}} miles
    </span>
</div>
</ng-template>

import { AfterViewInit, Component, EmbeddedViewRef, TemplateRef, ViewChild} from "@angular/core";
import { IgxShapeDataSource } from 'igniteui-angular-core';
import { IgxIgxGeographicMapComponent } from 'igniteui-angular-maps';
import { IgxGeographicPolylineSeriesComponent } from 'igniteui-angular-maps';

@Component({
  selector: "app-map-geographic-shape-polyline-series",
  styleUrls: ["./map-geographic-shape-polyline-series.component.scss"],
  templateUrl: "./map-geographic-shape-polyline-series.component.html"
})

export class MapTypeShapePolylineSeriesComponent implements AfterViewInit {

  @ViewChild ("map")
  public map: IgxGeographicMapComponent;

  @ViewChild("template")
  public tooltip: TemplateRef<object>;

  constructor() {
  }

  public ngAfterViewInit(): void {
    this.map.windowRect = { left: 0.195, top: 0.325, width: 0.2, height: 0.1 };

    const sds = new IgxShapeDataSource();
    sds.shapefileSource = "/assets/Shapes/AmericanRoads.shp";
    sds.databaseSource  = "/assets/Shapes/AmericanRoads.dbf";
    sds.dataBind();
    sds.importCompleted.subscribe(() => this.onDataLoaded(sds, ""));
  }

  public onDataLoaded(sds: IgxShapeDataSource, e: any) {
    const shapeRecords = sds.getPointData();
    console.log("loaded /Shapes/AmericanRoads.shp " + shapeRecords.length);

    const roadsUSA: any[] = [];
    const roadsMEX: any[] = [];
    const roadsCAN: any[] = [];

    // filtering records of loaded shapefile
    for (const record of shapeRecords) {
        // reading field values loaded from DBF file
        const type = record.fieldValues.RoadType;
        const road = {
            country: record.fieldValues.Country,
            length: record.fieldValues.RoadLength / 10,
            points: record.points,
            type: type === 1 ? "Highway" : "Road"
        };
        // grouping road items by country names
        if (type === 1 || type === 2) {
            if (road.country === "USA") {
                roadsUSA.push(road);
            } else if (road.country === "MEX") {
                roadsMEX.push(road);
            } else if (road.country === "CAN") {
                roadsCAN.push(road);
            }
        }
    }

    // creating polyline series for roads of each country
    this.addSeriesWith(roadsCAN, "rgba(252, 32, 32, 0.9)");
    this.addSeriesWith(roadsUSA, "rgba(3, 121, 231, 0.9)");
    this.addSeriesWith(roadsMEX, "rgba(14, 194, 14, 0.9)");
}

  public addSeriesWith(shapeData: any[], shapeBrush: string) {
        const lineSeries = new IgxGeographicPolylineSeriesComponent ();
        lineSeries.dataSource = shapeData;
        lineSeries.shapeMemberPath = "points";
        lineSeries.shapeFilterResolution = 2.0;
        lineSeries.shapeStrokeThickness = 2;
        lineSeries.shapeStroke = shapeBrush;
        lineSeries.tooltipTemplate = this.tooltip;
        this.map.series.add(lineSeries);
    }
}

Angular Geographic Polyline Map