I have tried using the google api to make a map on my website however to use that now u gotta pay quite a bit. Anyway , I found the OpenLayers api and its cool and all however when I request the map to center on my current location the map is not getting rendered anymore .-. I get no errors in my console , and I even used promises so the map will start rendering once I have got the coordinates .
this is my index.js code
import 'ol/ol.css';
import { Map, View } from 'ol';
import TileLayer from 'ol/layer/Tile';
import OSM from 'ol/source/OSM';
var lng;
var lat;
if (navigator.geolocation) {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function (position) {
lat = Promise.resolve(position.coords.latitude);
lng = Promise.resolve(position.coords.longitude);
Promise.all([lat, lng]).then((res) => {
console.log(res);
const map = new Map({
target: 'map',
layers: [
new TileLayer({
source: new OSM()
})
],
view: new View({
center: [lat, lng],
zoom: 0
})
});
})
})
}
And this is my html code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Using Parcel with OpenLayers</title>
<style>
#map {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="map"></div>
<script src="./index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
to run all of this I'm using node and if I get the const map out of the conditional the map will display however that would not be the center I want to see :D
The default projection of an OpenLayers map is EPSG:3857
. The coordinates received by the geolocation API are in projection EPSG:4326
.
You need to either transform the received coordinates to EPSG:3857
(e.g. with fromLonLat) or set the projection of your map to EPSG:4326
.