Leaflet.LayerIndex

Efficient spatial index for Leaflet layers. It works recursively for L.FeatureGroup objects.

Requires the Magnificient RTree.js

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Usage

On L.Map objects


    L.Map.include(L.LayerIndexMixin);

    var map = L.map(...);
    ...
    var layer = L.GeoJSON(data).addTo(map);
    map.indexLayer(layer);

    // Search visible features for example
    map.on('moveend', function () {
        var shown = map.search(map.getBounds());
        console.log(shown.length + ' objects shown.');
    });

    // remove the spatial index when the layer is unused
    map.unindexLayer(layer);

map.unindexLayer() function accepts an options object as an optional second parameter to define the bounds to be removed from the index. It should have one of the following attributes:

options.bounds - a leaflet latLngBounds object
options.latlng - a leaflet latLng object
options.latlngs - an array of leaflet latLng objects

If no option is provided, the function will use the bounds of the layer's geometry.

Using inherited class


    L.IndexedGeoJSON = L.GeoJSON.extend({
        includes: L.LayerIndexMixin,

        initialize: function (geojson, options) {
            // Decorate onEachFeature to index layers
            var onEachFeature = function (geojson, layer) {
                this.indexLayer(layer);
                if (this._onEachFeature) this._onEachFeature(geojson, layer);
            };
            this._onEachFeature = options.onEachFeature;
            options.onEachFeature = L.Util.bind(onFeatureParse, this);

            // Parent initialization
            L.GeoJSON.prototype.initialize.call(this, geojson, options);
        },

        removeLayer: function (layer) {
          if (this.hasLayer(layer)) {
            this.unindexLayer(layer)
          }
          return window.L.GeoJSON.prototype.removeLayer.call(this, layer)
        }
    });


    var layer = L.IndexedGeoJSON(data).addTo(map);

    var aroundToulouse = layer.searchBuffer(L.latLng([43.60, 1.44]), 0.1);