.. Author: Bu Kun .. Title: Custom callout icon
Custom callout icon
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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to easily tag a map with a custom
icon.
.. raw:: html
Preparing images
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In order to make a custom icon, we usually need two images - the actual
icon image and its shadow image. For this tutorial, we used the Leaflet
logo and created 4 images - 3 different color blade images and a common
shadow image for them:
Note that the white areas in the image are actually transparent.
Create icon
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The marker icon in the Leaflet is defined by the ``L.Icon`` object and
is used as a parameter option when creating the marker. Let’s create a
green leaf icon:
::
var greenIcon = L.icon({{
iconUrl: 'leaf-green.png',
shadowUrl: 'leaf-shadow.png',
iconSize: [38, 95], // size of the icon
shadowSize: [50, 64], // size of the shadow
iconAnchor: [22, 94], // point of the icon which will correspond to marker's location
shadowAnchor: [4, 62], // the same for the shadow
popupAnchor: [-3, -76] // point from which the popup should open relative to the iconAnchor
}});
Now it’s easy to put an icon on the map:
::
L.marker([51.5, -0.09], {{icon: greenIcon}}).addTo(map);
.. raw:: html
Define icon class
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What if we need to create some icons that have a lot in common? Let’s
define our own icon class, which includes sharing options. It’s really
easy to inherit Leaflet from the L icon ( ``L.Icon`` ):
::
var LeafIcon = L.Icon.extend({{
options: {{
shadowUrl: 'leaf-shadow.png',
iconSize: [38, 95],
shadowSize: [50, 64],
iconAnchor: [22, 94],
shadowAnchor: [4, 62],
popupAnchor: [-3, -76]
}}
}});
Now we can create these three leaf icons in this class and use them:
::
var greenIcon = new LeafIcon({{iconUrl: 'leaf-green.png'}}),
redIcon = new LeafIcon({{iconUrl: 'leaf-red.png'}}),
orangeIcon = new LeafIcon({{iconUrl: 'leaf-orange.png'}});
As you may have noticed, we created a leaf icon instance using the
keyword ``new``. So why aren’t all Leaflet classes created with it? The
answer is simple: the real Leaflet classes are named with uppercase
letters (such as L.Icon), and they also need to use ``new`` is created,
but it is also named with a lowercase letter name (L.icon), which is
created for convenience, such as:
::
L.icon = function (options) {{
return new L.Icon(options);
}};
You can also do the same thing in class. Ok, let’s put the markers for
these icons on the map:
::
L.marker([51.5, -0.09], {{icon: greenIcon}}).addTo(map).bindPopup("I am a green leaf.");
L.marker([51.495, -0.083], {{icon: redIcon}}).addTo(map).bindPopup("I am a red leaf.");
L.marker([51.49, -0.1], {{icon: orangeIcon}}).addTo(map).bindPopup("I am an orange leaf.");
Now open the full example .