I am trying to use the Google Maps Distance Matrix Service (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/distancematrix).
I put this line in my public/index.html: <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=MY_API_KEY"></script>
In a react's js file, I can print window.google and see the global variable. I can also see that it has a function window.google.maps.DistanceMatrixService() to create the service. However, when I create that service with var service = window.google.maps.DistanceMatrixService(), service is undefined. Any idea why?
As Jaromanda X pointed out, I missed the new keyword.
Full line is now: var service = new window.google.map.DistanceMatrixService().
I'm trying to get a WebMap object (as JSON) from a JavaScript Map object in the ArcGIS JavaScript API. Is there any way to do this within the API, without using ArcGIS.com? Ideally something like:
webMapAsJSON = map.toWebMap();
From the "Export Web Map Task" documentation in the REST API, there's this line that suggests it should exist:
"The ArcGIS web APIs (for JavaScript, Flex, Silverlight, etc.) allow developers to easily get this JSON string from the map."
However, I don't see anything in the Map object or elsewhere in the API that would do this.
You can't. At least not officially. The steps outlined below are not recommended. They use part of the ArcGIS JS library that is not part of the public API and therefore this behavior may not work in the next version of the API or they may back-patch a previous version of the API and this could stop working even on something that previously did work.
That said, sometimes you need some "future" functionality right now and this is actually a pretty straightforward way of getting what you want using the common proxy pattern
Use the undocumented "private" function _getPrintDefinition
var proxy_getPrintDefinition = printTask._getPrintDefinition;
printTask._getPrintDefinition = function() {
var getPrintDefResult = proxy_getPrintDefinition.apply(this, arguments);
//Now you can do what you want with getPrintDefResults
//which should contain the Web_Map_as_JSON
console.log(Json.stringify(getPrintDefResult));
//make sure you return the result or you'll break this print task.
return getPrintDefResult;
}
_getPrintDefinition takes the map as the first argument and a PrintParameters object as the second.
so you'll have to create a PrintTask, redefine the _getPrintDefinition function on the newly created print task as outlined above, create a PrintParameters and then run:
myPrintTask._getPrintDefinition(myMap,myPrintParameters);
The results of this on my little test are:
{"mapOptions":{"showAttribution":false,"extent":{"xmin":-7967955.990468411,"ymin":5162705.099750506,"xmax":-7931266.216891576,"ymax":5184470.54355468,
"spatialReference":{"wkid":102100,"latestWkid":3857}},"spatialReference":{"wkid":102100,"latestWkid":3857}},
"operationalLayers":[
{"id":"layer0","title":"layer0","opacity":1,"minScale":591657527.591555,"maxScale":70.5310735,"url":"http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer"},
{"id":"XXX-Redacted-XXX","title":"serviceTitle","opacity":1,"minScale":0,"maxScale":0,"token":"XXX-Redacted-XXX","url":"http://XXX-Redacted-XXX/arcgis/rest/services/TestService/MapServer"},
{"id":"XXX-Redacted-XXX","opacity":1,"minScale":0,"maxScale":0,"featureCollection":{"layers":[]}},
{"id":"featureGraphics","opacity":1,"minScale":0,"maxScale":0,"featureCollection":{"layers":[]}},
{"id":"map_graphics","opacity":1,"minScale":0,"maxScale":0,"featureCollection":{"layers":[]}}
]}
if you don't need to do any operations on the web map json and just need the output then you don't even need to use the proxy pattern.
#Suttikeat Witchayakul's answer above should work if your goal is to print the map using a print service.
However, if you are trying to export the map to the web map JSON spec so that you can save it to ArcGIS Online/Portal, or re-instantiate a map object from it later, you may have some problems. This is because the web map specification is not the same as the export web map specification, which what the print task generates and sends to printing services.
Unfortunately, the ArcGIS API for JavaScript does not provide any methods to export a map object to web map JSON. This is supposed to be coming in version 4... at some point. Until then, you can use the all but abandoned cereal library. However, if your map uses layer types that are not fully supported by cereal, it may not work for you as is and you would have to extend it.
If you want to use "esri/tasks/PrintTask" to export your map, you must use "esri/tasks/PrintParameters" for execute the printTask. Just set your map object directly to printParameter.
require([
"esri/map", "esri/tasks/PrintTemplate", "esri/tasks/PrintParameters", ...
], function(Map, PrintTemplate, PrintParameters, ... ) {
var map = new Map( ... );
var template = new PrintTemplate();
template.exportOptions = {
width: 500,
height: 400,
dpi: 96
};
template.format = "PDF";
template.layout = "MAP_ONLY";
template.preserveScale = false;
var params = new PrintParameters();
params.map = map;
params.template = template;
printTask.execute(params, printResult);
});
I'm using http://angular-google-maps.org/ it's nice angular google maps library. But i want use map instance which is loaded not in angularjs context by something like this:
$scope.map = {
events: {
tilesloaded: function (map) {
$scope.$apply(function () {
$scope.mapInstance = map;
});
}
}
}
Ok nice i have mapInstance and I CAN use it programmatically. But in application lifecycle this fire to late- so in other words I want to load whole directive (and get map instance) before other code- where I just wan't to use other map events.
In recently looking up ways to get the map instance from the example on the docs page, I came across this instead:
$scope.map.control.getGMap().
Make sure on your google-maps HTML markup, you have the options attribute set as control="map.control" and an empty object set in your $scope.map object.
$scope.map= { control : {}, ...other map options...};
That empty objects is filled when google map is initiated. I hope this helps and isn't too late.
Enjoy Angular!!!
I have worked on google map api few years ago and wrote a little reusable utility. At that time adding google map api reference does add all the api classses in your page's global namespace. As this is working sample
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?SOMEPARAMETERS">
<script>
var map= new GMap2(document.getElementById("map_canvas"));
var point= new LatLng(31,75);
var line= new Polyline(OPTIONS);
</script>
In v3, all Google Maps JavaScript API code is stored in the google.maps.* namespace instead of the global namespace. Most objects have also been renamed as part of this process and some more changes are done.
Now you have to write the above code as follows
<script src="APIURL">
<script>
var map= new google.map.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"));
var point= new google.mapLatLng(31,75);
var line= new google.map.Polyline(OPTIONS);
</script>
ISSUE
I wrote a library back in Google v2 API time and used in number of projects and was working great. But now I am working on a new project and using Google V3 API and want to reuse that old v2 library. But adding v3 library doesn't add the API classes in global namespace and my library doesn't work. Is there any way we can add namespace to our JavaScript file like we did in C# on top and it allows us to write the classes without appending the namespace
You might be able to just use references:
(function() { // A scoping function to avoid creating glboals
var GMap2 = google.map.Map;
var LatLng = google.map.LatLng;
var Polyline = googlemap.Polyline;
// ...your code using the above here...
})();
This assumes, though, that the arguments haven't changed.
Alternately, you could use the Facade pattern:
function GMap2(/*...relevant args...*/)
return new google.map.Map(/*...relevant args here, possibly modified...*/);
}
(And similar for others.)
(That works even if you use new with GMap2 because the result of the new expression will be the object you return from the constructor function if you return an object.)
I have a Silverlight application that generates a lot of Google Maps objects on the Silverlight site. For example a Map is created like this:
var map = HtmlPage.Window.CreateInstance(#"google.maps.Map", container, mapOptions);
var center = (ScriptObject)_map.Invoke("getCenter");
Everything works fine. But now I need to access the map object from Javascript directly. I think it could be done by exposing a map property as ScriptableMember and use it from Javascript. But that"s a bit odd because the map object lives already in the browser. But how do I access it?
Update
Just to make clearer what I'm talking about
Let's say I have created my map as shown above. Now I have a loaded Javasript file with this function:
function ReadMapCenter()
{
//Need the map object in Javascript
map.getCenter();
}
How can I access the existing map Object from Javascript?
If you just expose it as type ScriptObject I think the bridge will simply unpack the scripted object rather than create yet another layer of wrapping for it.
Alternative
Don't use CreateInstance
In your javascript at the global leve use:-
var map;
function createMap(container, mapOptions)
{
if (!map)
{
map = new google.maps.Map(container, mapOptions);
}
return map;
}
now your javascript has a map global it can use.
In silverlight use:-
var map = HtmlPage.Window.Invoke("createMap", container, mapOptions);