@bluehalo/ngx-leaflet-draw

Leaflet Draw extension to the @bluehalo/ngx-leaflet package for Angular.io Provides Leaflet Draw integration into Angular.io projects. Compatible with Leaflet v1.x and Leaflet Draw 1.x

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• API
• Cookbook
• Contribute
• License
• Credits

Install

Install the package and its peer dependencies via npm (or yarn):

npm install leaflet
npm install leaflet-draw@1.0.2
npm install @bluehalo/ngx-leaflet
npm install @bluehalo/ngx-leaflet-draw

NOTE: I've seen some issues with leaflet-draw@1.0.3 and 1.0.4. Specifically, label anchors and drawing rectangles doesn't seem to work correctly. If you have issues, leaflet-draw@1.0.2 seems to be the latest release without those issues.

You will need to also install the leaflet typings via npm:

npm install --save-dev @types/leaflet
npm install --save-dev @types/leaflet-draw

If you want to run the demo, clone the repository, perform an npm install, npm run demo and then go to http://localhost:4200.

Usage

Generally, the steps are:

• Install and configure @bluehalo/ngx-leaflet
• Install this library and the Leaflet-draw typings (see above).
• Import the Leaflet and Leaflet-draw stylesheet
• Import LeafletModule and LeafletDraw into your Angular project
• Create and configure a map (see docs below and/or demo)

Import the Leaflet Stylesheet

For leaflet to work, you need to have the leaflet stylesheets loaded into your application. If you've installed via npm, you will need to load both ./node_modules/leaflet/dist/leaflet.css and ./node_modules/leaflet-draw/dist/leaflet.draw.css. How you include the stylesheet will depend on your specific setup. For examples, refer to the @bluehalo/ngx-leaflet README.

If you are using Angular CLI, you will need to add the CSS files to the styles array contained in angular.json:

{
	...
	"styles": [
		"styles.css",
		"./node_modules/leaflet/dist/leaflet.css",
		"./node_modules/leaflet-draw/dist/leaflet.draw.css"
	],
	...
}

Import LeafletModule and LeafletDrawModule

Before you can use the Leaflet components in your Angular.io app, you'll need to import it in your application. Depending on if you're using standalone mode or not, you will import it into your modules and/or components.

import { LeafletDirective, LeafletLayerDirective } from '@bluehalo/ngx-leaflet';
import { LeafletDrawDirective } from '@bluehalo/ngx-leaflet-draw';

@Component({
	imports: [
		//...
		LeafletDirective,
		LeafletLayerDirective,
		LeafletDrawDirective
	]
})

Create and Configure a Map with the Draw Controls

To create a map, use the leaflet attribute directive. This directive must appear first. You must specify an initial zoom/center and set of layers either via leafletOptions or by binding to leafletZoom, leafletCenter, and leafletLayers. Finally, add the leafletDraw attribute directive to add the leaflet draw control and configure it with leafletDrawOptions.

<div leaflet style="height: 400px;"
     leafletDraw
     [leafletOptions]="options"
     [leafletDrawOptions]="drawOptions"
     (leafletDrawCreated)="onDrawCreated($event)">

	<div [leafletLayer]="drawnItems"></div>

</div>

To enable editing, you need to add a featureGroup to the map and pass the feature group in with the drawOptions. In addition, you will need to add layers to the feature group yourself, as this will no longer happen automatically. Both of these changes are new in @bluehalo/ngx-leaflet-draw@6, and were made to match default Leaflet Draw behavior.

drawnItems: FeatureGroup = featureGroup();

drawOptions = {
	edit: {
		featureGroup: this.drawnItems
	}
};

public onDrawCreated(e: any) {
	this.drawnItems.addLayer((e as DrawEvents.Created).layer);
}

A Note About Markers

If you are using Angular CLI or Webpack to package your project, you will need to configure the marker icon as shown in the leafletDrawOptions example above. The issue has to do with how Leaflet handles icon image loading. For more details on how to set this up, reference the Marker Setup guide in the @bluehalo/ngx-leaflet cookbook.

API

Full API documentation is in docs/API.md. It covers:

• Directive inputs: leafletDraw, leafletDrawOptions, leafletDrawLocal
• Draw events — all 16 L.Draw.Event output bindings
• Getting a reference to the draw control via leafletDrawReady or LeafletDrawDirective injection

Cookbook

Common patterns and examples are in docs/cookbook.md, including:

• Showing and Hiding the Draw Control

Contribute

PRs accepted. Please make contributions on feature branches and open a pull request against master.

License

See LICENSE for details.

Credits

Leaflet Is an awesome mapping package. Leaflet.draw Makes drawing shapes on maps super easy.