HERE Maps API - get the geocoordinates when user clicks mouse over the map
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{{Abstract|This article shows how to get the geolocation of the user's mouse click.}} | {{Abstract|This article shows how to get the geolocation of the user's mouse click.}} | ||
| − | The code example sets up an Event Listener on the {{Icode|click}} event of the Map Display. The x and y pixel values are extracted from {{Icode|evt.displayX}} and {{Icode|evt.displayY}} and converted to {{Icode|geo.Coordinates}}. | + | The code example sets up an Event Listener on the {{Icode|click}} event of the Map Display. The x and y pixel values are extracted from {{Icode|evt.displayX}} and {{Icode|evt.displayY}} and converted to {{Icode|geo.Coordinates}}. Remember to add in your own [[How to Obtain Your Own Nokia appID and Token| AppId and Token]] to get the example to work. |
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Revision as of 14:32, 4 January 2013
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This article shows how to get the geolocation of the user's mouse click.
The code example sets up an Event Listener on the click event of the Map Display. The x and y pixel values are extracted from evt.displayX and evt.displayY and converted to geo.Coordinates. Remember to add in your own AppId and Token to get the example to work.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Get Geocoordinates on Click</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://api.maps.nokia.com/2.2.3/jsl.js" charset="utf-8">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="mapContainer" style="z-index: -1; left:0px; top:0px; width: 100%; height: 80%; position: absolute;"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Don't forget to set your API credentials
//
// Replace with your appId and token which you can obtain when you
// register on http://api.developer.nokia.com/
//
nokia.Settings.set( "appId", "YOUR APP ID GOES HERE");
nokia.Settings.set( "authenticationToken", "YOUR AUTHENTICATION TOKEN GOES HERE");
//
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Get the DOM node to which we will append the map
var mapContainer = document.getElementById("mapContainer");
// Create a map inside the map container DOM node
var map = new nokia.maps.map.Display(mapContainer, {
// Initial center and zoom level of the map
center: [52.51, 13.4],
zoomLevel: 10,
components: [
new nokia.maps.map.component.ZoomBar(),
new nokia.maps.map.component.Behavior(),
new nokia.maps.map.component.TypeSelector()
]
});
/* Attach an event listener to map display
* push info bubble with coordinate information to map
*/
map.addListener("click", function (evt) {
var coord = map.pixelToGeo(evt.displayX, evt.displayY);
alert("Clicked at " + coord);
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Example alert window
