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Web Components Geographic Polyline Map

In Web Components map component, you can use the GeographicPolylineSeries 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.

Web Components Geographic Polyline Map Example

The GeographicPolylineSeries works a lot like the GeographicShapeSeries 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 GeographicPolylineSeries has the DataSource 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 GeographicPolylineSeries uses points of this mapped data column to plot polygons in the control.

Code Snippet

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

<igc-geographic-map id="geoMap" width="100%" height="100%">

</igc-geographic-map>

import { IgcGeographicPolylineSeriesComponent } from 'igniteui-webcomponents-maps';
import { IgcDataChartInteractivityModule } from 'igniteui-webcomponents-charts';
import { IgcShapeDataSource } from 'igniteui-webcomponents-core';
//...
connectedCallback() {
    this.geoMap = document.getElementById("geoMap") as IgcGeographicMapComponent;
    // loading a shapefile with geographic shapes
    const sds = new IgcShapeDataSource();
    sds.importCompleted = this.onDataLoaded;
    sds.shapefileSource = "../shapes/AmericanRoads.shp";
    sds.databaseSource = "../shapes/AmericanRoads.dbf";
    sds.dataBind();
}

onDataLoaded(sds: IgcShapeDataSource, e: any) {
    const shapeRecords = sds.getPointData();
    console.log("loaded 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 IgcGeographicPolylineSeriesComponent();
    lineSeries.dataSource = shapeData;
    lineSeries.shapeMemberPath = "points";
    lineSeries.shapeFilterResolution = 2.0;
    lineSeries.shapeStrokeThickness = 2;
    lineSeries.shapeStroke = shapeBrush;

    this.geoMap.series.add(lineSeries);
}

Web Components Geographic Polyline Map