positioning of map components

[mtennekes]

Just implemented tm_draw and tm_fullscreen. But I'm wondering where these and other components should be placed.

tm_shape(NLD_muni) + 
  tm_polygons("dwelling_ownership") + 
  tm_fullscreen()  + 
  tm_minimap() + 
  tm_scalebar() +
  tm_geocoder() + 
  tm_draw()

Opinions? @Robinlovelace @Nowosad @stragu ?

There is still an issue with the layer control box, which overlaps with any other component that is placed top left. @walkerke can this somehow be solved? Otherwise, we need to stick the layer control box to a corner without any other components.

Other question @walkerke: is it possible to change the stack order of components that are drawn in the same corner? E.g. I'd like the geocoder to be near the device borders (so top in this example) instead of between other buttons)

[Robinlovelace]

A bit to the right of where they are currently, to the right of the vertical component with buttons on the left would be my suggestion.

I recall it was a faff getting things not to overlap with controls in my svelte-maplibre-gl exploits a while back, this is probably not helpful but here's the geocoder element: https://github.com/pctni/ui/blob/fa8db5920cbc26dae44678273db6d3544509dbcc/src/lib/components/Geocoder.svelte

That leads to this positioning of the search bar:

Source: https://pctni.org/

[walkerke]

@mtennekes good question. The challenge is that the layers control in mapgl is based on this: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/toggle-layers/, which means it's built with custom HTML and is not a native control element, which has collision-detection built in.

I tried a refactor once to do this, but I couldn't get it to work.

With respect to the other controls, they should be displayed in the order they are added to the map, e.g.:

maplibre() |> add_geocoder_control(position = "top-right") |> add_navigation_control()

[mtennekes]

Thx @walkerke

However, the order doesn't change if I run

maplibre()  |> add_navigation_control()|> add_geocoder_control(position = "top-right")

at least not in the CRAN version