openlayers vector feature get pixel position

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Rafael picture Rafael · Jun 13, 2014 · Viewed 16.4k times · Source

What is the fastest way to get the pixel coordinates of a OpenLayers.Feature.Vector? I mean, I want to get the pixel (top,left) position relative to map container of a already drawn feature, if possible without calculations because performance improvements.

Thanks & regards, Rafael.

Answer

Kenny806 picture Kenny806 · Jun 13, 2014

In ol3:

var geometry = feature.getGeometry();
var coordinate = geometry.getCoordinates();
var pixel = map.getPixelFromCoordinate(coordinate);

In OL2:

var geometry = feature.geometry;
var coordinate = new OpenLayers.LonLat(geometry.x, geometry.y);
var pixel = map.getPixelFromLonLat(coordinate);

A few prerequisities: the feature must be point, otherwise geometry.getCoordinates() returns an array of coordinates and you need to choose one. The other should be pretty obvious but I'll mention it anyway: variable map is an instance of ol.Map or OpenLayers.Map respectivelly

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