In my previous post 'Leaflet JS - changing esri shape into marker on certain zoom level ' I was able to resolve an issue which i had with the leaflet JS library and changing the polygon shapes to markers icons when hitting a certain zoom level.
I was advised by 'Ivan Sanchez' to use the 'Leaflet.Deflate' plugin and this works like a charm, so now the various shapes are being transformed into markers after a certain zoomlevel, however now I'm struggling to change the default leaflet marker icon to a custom marker icon, so my question now is:
Is it possible to change the default marker icon to a custom marker icon while using the 'Leaflet.ShapeFile' and 'Leaflet.Deflate' plugin and what would be the best approach to do this?
I wanted to make a JSFiddle, but I don't JSFiddle allows me to attach the zip file contains the shapefiles, so I will post the code I have got so far below here, thanks for your help, advise and support:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset='utf-8' />
<title>v4</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="lib/leaflet/leaflet.css" />
<!--[if lte IE 8]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.leafletjs.com/leaflet-0.6.4/leaflet.ie.css" /> <![endif]-->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="lib/leaflet/L.Control.Sidebar.css" />
<style>
html { height: 100% }
body { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
#map { height: 100% }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="map"></div>
<script src="lib/jquery/jquery-3.1.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="lib/leaflet/leaflet.js"></script>
<script src="lib/leaflet/catiline.js"></script>
<script src="lib/leaflet/leaflet.shpfile.js"></script>
<script src="lib/leaflet/shp.js"></script>
<script src="lib/leaflet/L.Control.Sidebar.js"></script>
<script src="lib/leaflet/L.Deflate.js"></script>
<script>
// init map
var m = L.map('map').setView([52.472833, 1.749609], 15);
// clicking on the map will hide the sidebar plugin.
m.on('click', function () {
sidebar.hide();
});
// init Deflate plugin
L.Deflate({ minSize: 10 }).addTo(m);
// Init side bar control
var sidebar = L.control.sidebar('sidebar', { closeButton: true, position: 'right' });
m.addControl(sidebar);
// Init esri shape file via leaflet.shapefile, shp.js plugin
var businessProperties = new L.Shapefile('data/businessshapes.zip', { style: propertyStyle, onEachFeature: propertyOnEachFeature }).addTo(m);
// create on-click Feature
function propertyOnEachFeature(feature, layer) {
layer.on( {
mouseover: highlightFeature,
mouseout: resetHighlight,
click: function populate() {
sidebar.toggle();
document.getElementById('pinfoHeader').innerHTML = "<h2>" + feature.properties.Building + " - Detailed Information</h2><br />";
document.getElementById('pTitle').innerHTML = "Name: " + feature.properties.Building
document.getElementById('pDetails').innerHTML = "SHAPE_Leng: " + feature.properties.SHAPE_Leng + "<br/ >SHAPE_Area: " + feature.properties.SHAPE_Area
}, highlightFeature, zoomToFeature
});
}
// style the properties style
function propertyStyle(feature) {
return {
fillColor: getPropertyColor(feature.properties.BusType),
weight: 2,
opacity: 1,
color: 'white',
dashArray: 3,
fillOpacity: 0.7
}
}
// set color per property according to the data table of the Esri Shape file.
function getPropertyColor(propStatus) {
if (propStatus == 'TypeA') {
return 'red';
} else if (propStatus == 'TypeB') {
return 'green';
} else {
return 'yellow';
}
}
// set the highlighted color for polygon
function highlightFeature(e) {
var layer = e.target;
layer.setStyle( {
weight: 2,
color: 'black',
fillColor: 'white',
fillOpacity: 0.2
});
if (!L.Browser.ie && !L.Browser.opera) {
layer.bringToFront();
}
}
// reset the highlighted color for polygon after mouse leave polygon
function resetHighlight(e) {
businessProperties.resetStyle(e.target);
}
//Extend the Default marker class to overwrite the leaflet.deflate marker icon???
var TestIcon = L.Icon.Default.extend({
options: {
iconUrl: 'assets/images/markers/business.png'
}
});
var testIcon = new TestIcon();
businessProperties.addTo(m);
// Init base maps for switch
var grayscale = L.tileLayer('http://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/light_all/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', { id: 'MapID', attribution: 'Map maintained by <a href="http://www.demo.com">Demo LTD</a>, — Map data © <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a>,' }).addTo(m);
var streets = L.tileLayer('http://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', { id: 'MapID', attribution: 'Map maintained by <a href="http://www.demo.com">Demo LTD</a>, — Map data © <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a>,' });
var baseMaps = {
"Streets": streets,
"Grayscale": grayscale
};
// Init overlay map switch
var overlayMaps = {
"Bussines Properties": businessProperties
};
// Add switches to map control
L.control.layers(baseMaps, overlayMaps).addTo(m);
</script>
</body>
</html>
The answer is: No.
The current code for Leaflet.Deflate uses a default marker and a default marker only, see https://github.com/oliverroick/Leaflet.Deflate/blob/991f51ca82e7bb14a17c8d769b4c378c4ebaf700/src/L.Deflate.js#L42
You could hack your way around it, but I would rather recommend filing a feature request in the Leaflet.Deflate repo. It should be possible to modify the Leaflet.Deflate repo to allow line/polygon features to have some extra properties to be used as marker options.