leaflet-omnivore

Leaflet supports the GeoJSON format by default. What if you have something else? That's where omnivore comes in.

It currently supports:

• CSV (via csv2geojson)
• GPX (via toGeoJSON)
• KML (via toGeoJSON)
• WKT (via wellknown)
• TopoJSON
• Encoded Polylines via polyline

Omnivore also includes an AJAX library, corslite, so you can specify what you want to add to the map with just a URL.

Installation

use it easily with the Mapbox Plugins CDN:

1<script src='//api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/plugins/leaflet-omnivore/v0.3.1/leaflet-omnivore.min.js'></script>

Or download leaflet-omnivore.min.js from this repository.

example

Live examples:

• WKT
• TopoJSON
• Tooltips
• KML
• GPX
• Icons
• CSV

1var map = L.mapbox.map('map', 'mapbox.streets')
2    .setView([38, -102.0], 5);
3
4omnivore.csv('a.csv').addTo(map);
5omnivore.gpx('a.gpx').addTo(map);
6omnivore.kml('a.kml').addTo(map);
7omnivore.wkt('a.wkt').addTo(map);
8omnivore.topojson('a.topojson').addTo(map);
9omnivore.geojson('a.geojson').addTo(map);
10omnivore.polyline('a.txt').addTo(map);

API

Arguments with ? are optional. parser_options consists of options sent to the parser library, not to the layer: if you want to provide options to the layer, see the example in the Custom Layers section.

By default, the library will construct a L.geoJson() layer internally and call .addData(geojson) on it in order to load it full of GeoJSON. If you want to use a different kind of layer, like a L.mapbox.featureLayer(), you can, by passing it as customLayer, as long as it supports events and addData(). You can also use this API to pass custom options to a L.geoJson() instance.:

• .csv(url, parser_options?, customLayer?): Load & parse CSV, and return layer. Options are the same as csv2geojson: latfield, lonfield, delimiter
• .csv.parse(csvString, parser_options?): Parse CSV, and return layer.
• .kml(url): Load & parse KML, and return layer.
• .kml.parse(kmlString | gpxDom): Parse KML from a string of XML or XML DOM, and return layer.
• .gpx(url, parser_options?, customLayer?): Load & parse GPX, and return layer.
• .gpx.parse(gpxString | gpxDom): Parse GPX from a string of XML or XML DOM, and return layer.
• .geojson(url, parser_options?, customLayer?): Load GeoJSON file at URL, parse GeoJSON, and return layer.
• .wkt(url, parser_options?, customLayer?): Load & parse WKT, and return layer.
• .wkt.parse(wktString): Parse WKT, and return layer.
• .topojson(url, parser_options?, customLayer?): Load & parse TopoJSON, and return layer.
• .topojson.parse(topojson): Parse TopoJSON (given as a string or object), and return layer.
• .polyline(url, parser_options?, customLayer?): Load & parse polyline, and return layer.
• .polyline.parse(txt, options, layer): Parse polyline (given as a string or object), and return layer.

Valid options:

polyline

• precision will change how the polyline is interpreted. By default, the value is 5. This is the factor in the algorithm, by default 1e5, which is adjustable.

Custom Layers

Passing custom options:

1var customLayer = L.geoJson(null, {
2    filter: function() {
3        // my custom filter function
4        return true;
5    }
6});
7
8var myLayer = omnivore.csv('foo', null, customLayer);

Adding custom styles to a GeoJSON layer:

1var customLayer = L.geoJson(null, {
2    // http://leafletjs.com/reference.html#geojson-style
3    style: function(feature) {
4        return { color: '#f00' };
5    }
6});
7// this can be any kind of omnivore layer
8var runLayer = omnivore.kml('line.kml', null, customLayer)

Using a L.mapbox.featureLayer:

1var layer = omnivore.gpx('a.gpx', null, L.mapbox.featureLayer());

Async & Events

Each function returns an L.geoJson object. Functions that load from URLs are asynchronous, so they will not immediately expose accurate .setGeoJSON() functions.

For this reason, we fire events:

• ready: fired when all data is loaded into the layer
• error: fired if data can't be loaded or parsed

1var layer = omnivore.gpx('a.gpx')
2    .on('ready', function() {
3        // when this is fired, the layer
4        // is done being initialized
5    })
6    .on('error', function() {
7        // fired if the layer can't be loaded over AJAX
8        // or can't be parsed
9    })
10    .addTo(map);

ready does not fire if you don't use an asynchronous form of the function like .topojson.parse(): because you don't need an event. Just run your code after the call.

Development

This is a browserify project:

1git clone git@github.com:mapbox/leaflet-omnivore.git
2
3cd leaflet-omnivore
4
5# to run tests
6npm install
7
8# to build leaflet-omnivore.js
9npm run build

leaflet-omnivore.js and leaflet-omnivore.min.js are built files generated from index.js by browserify. If you find an issue, it either needs to be fixed in index.js, or in one of the libraries leaflet-omnivore uses to parse formats.

FAQ

• What if I just want one format? Lucky for you, each format is specified in a different module, so you can just use TopoJSON, csv2geojson, wellknown, or toGeoJSON individually.
• My AJAX request is failing for a cross-domain request. Read up on the Same Origin Restriction. By default, we use corslite, so cross-domain requests will try to use CORS if your server and browser supports it, but if one of them doesn't, there's no way on the internet to support your request.
• Why isn't JSONP supported? Here's why.