My bike route to UofT.

Inspired by Chris Whong’s Day in the Life of a NYC Taxi (http://nyctaxi.herokuapp.com/) and zev@zevross.com's Great Coffee to Great Beer (http://zevross.com/blog/2014/09/30/use-the-amazing-d3-library-to-animate-a-path-on-a-leaflet-map/).

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<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

var tweenToggle = 0;

var map = L.map('map')
    .addLayer(mapboxTiles)
    .setView([43.6711, -79.28847], 14);

// we will be appending the SVG to the Leaflet map pane
    // g (group) element will be inside the svg 
    var svg = d3.select(map.getPanes().overlayPane).append("svg");

// if you don't include the leaflet-zoom-hide when a 
    // user zooms in or out you will still see the phantom
    // original SVG 
    var g = svg.append("g").attr("class", "leaflet-zoom-hide");

//read in the GeoJSON. This function is asynchronous so
    // anything that needs the json file should be within
    d3.json("bikepoints.geojson", function(collection) {

// this is not needed right now, but for future we may need
        // to implement some filtering. This uses the d3 filter function
        // featuresdata is an array of point objects

var featuresdata = collection.features.filter(function(d) {
            return d.properties.id == "route1"
        })

//stream transform. transforms geometry before passing it to
        // listener. Can be used in conjunction with d3.geo.path
        // to implement the transform.

var transform = d3.geo.transform({
            point: projectPoint
        });

//d3.geo.path translates GeoJSON to SVG path codes.
        //essentially a path generator. In this case it's
        // a path generator referencing our custom "projection"
        // which is the Leaflet method latLngToLayerPoint inside
        // our function called projectPoint
        var d3path = d3.geo.path().projection(transform);

// Here we're creating a FUNCTION to generate a line
        // from input points. Since input points will be in 
        // Lat/Long they need to be converted to map units
        // with applyLatLngToLayer
        var toLine = d3.svg.line()
            .interpolate("linear")
            .x(function(d) {
                return applyLatLngToLayer(d).x
            })
            .y(function(d) {
                return applyLatLngToLayer(d).y
            });

// From now on we are essentially appending our features to the
        // group element. We're adding a class with the line name
        // and we're making them invisible

// these are the points that make up the path
        // they are unnecessary so I've make them
        // transparent for now
        var ptFeatures = g.selectAll("circle")
            .data(featuresdata)
            .enter()
            .append("circle")
            .attr("r", 3)
            .attr("class", "waypoints");

// Here we will make the points into a single
        // line/path. Note that we surround the featuresdata
        // with [] to tell d3 to treat all the points as a
        // single line. For now these are basically points
        // but below we set the "d" attribute using the 
        // line creator function from above.
        var linePath = g.selectAll(".lineConnect")
            .data([featuresdata])
            .enter()
            .append("path")
            .attr("class", "lineConnect");

// This will be our traveling circle it will
        // travel along our path
        var marker = g.append("circle")
            .attr("r", 10)
            .attr("id", "marker")
            .attr("class", "travelMarker");

// For simplicity I hard-coded this! I'm taking
        // the first and the last object (the origin)
        // and destination and adding them separately to
        // better style them. There is probably a better
        // way to do this!
        var originANDdestination = [featuresdata[0], featuresdata[392]]

var begend = g.selectAll(".drinks")
            .data(originANDdestination)
            .enter()
            .append("circle", ".drinks")
            .attr("r", 5)
            .style("fill", "red")
            .style("opacity", "1");

// I want names for my coffee and beer
        var text = g.selectAll("text")
            .data(originANDdestination)
            .enter()
            .append("text")
            .text(function(d) {
                return d.properties.name
            })
            .attr("class", "locnames")
            .attr("y", function(d) {
                return -10
            })

// when the user zooms in or out you need to reset
        // the view
        map.on("viewreset", reset);

// this puts stuff on the map! 
        reset();
        transition();

// Reposition the SVG to cover the features.
        function reset() {
            var bounds = d3path.bounds(collection),
                topLeft = bounds[0],
                bottomRight = bounds[1];

// here you're setting some styles, width, heigh etc
            // to the SVG. Note that we're adding a little height and
            // width because otherwise the bounding box would perfectly
            // cover our features BUT... since you might be using a big
            // circle to represent a 1 dimensional point, the circle
            // might get cut off.

text.attr("transform",
                function(d) {
                    return "translate(" +
                        applyLatLngToLayer(d).x + "," +
                        applyLatLngToLayer(d).y + ")";
                });

// for the points we need to convert from latlong
            // to map units
            begend.attr("transform",
                function(d) {
                    return "translate(" +
                        applyLatLngToLayer(d).x + "," +
                        applyLatLngToLayer(d).y + ")";
                });

ptFeatures.attr("transform",
                function(d) {
                    return "translate(" +
                        applyLatLngToLayer(d).x + "," +
                        applyLatLngToLayer(d).y + ")";
                });

// again, not best practice, but I'm harding coding
            // the starting point

marker.attr("transform",
                function() {
                    var y = featuresdata[0].geometry.coordinates[1]
                    var x = featuresdata[0].geometry.coordinates[0]
                    return "translate(" +
                        map.latLngToLayerPoint(new L.LatLng(y, x)).x + "," +
                        map.latLngToLayerPoint(new L.LatLng(y, x)).y + ")";
                });

// Setting the size and location of the overall SVG container
            svg.attr("width", bottomRight[0] - topLeft[0] + 120)
                .attr("height", bottomRight[1] - topLeft[1] + 120)
                .style("left", topLeft[0] - 50 + "px")
                .style("top", topLeft[1] - 50 + "px");

// linePath.attr("d", d3path);
            linePath.attr("d", toLine)
            // ptPath.attr("d", d3path);
            g.attr("transform", "translate(" + (-topLeft[0] + 50) + "," + (-topLeft[1] + 50) + ")");

} // end reset

// the transition function could have been done above using
        // chaining but it's cleaner to have a separate function.
        // the transition. Dash array expects "500, 30" where 
        // 500 is the length of the "dash" 30 is the length of the
        // gap. So if you had a line that is 500 long and you used
        // "500, 0" you would have a solid line. If you had "500,500"
        // you would have a 500px line followed by a 500px gap. This
        // can be manipulated by starting with a complete gap "0,500"
        // then a small line "1,500" then bigger line "2,500" and so 
        // on. The values themselves ("0,500", "1,500" etc) are being
        // fed to the attrTween operator
        function transition() {
            linePath.transition()
                .duration(10000)
                .ease("linear")
                .attrTween("stroke-dasharray", tweenDash)
                .each("end", function() {
                    d3.select(this).call(transition);// infinite loop
                }); 
        } //end transition

// this function feeds the attrTween operator above with the 
        // stroke and dash lengths
        function tweenDash() {
            return function(t) {
                //total length of path (single value)
                var l = linePath.node().getTotalLength(); 
            
                // this is creating a function called interpolate which takes
                // as input a single value 0-1. The function will interpolate
                // between the numbers embedded in a string. An example might
                // be interpolatString("0,500", "500,500") in which case
                // the first number would interpolate through 0-500 and the
                // second number through 500-500 (always 500). So, then
                // if you used interpolate(0.5) you would get "250, 500"
                // when input into the attrTween above this means give me
                // a line of length 250 followed by a gap of 500. Since the
                // total line length, though is only 500 to begin with this
                // essentially says give me a line of 250px followed by a gap
                // of 250px.
                interpolate = d3.interpolateString("0," + l, l + "," + l);
                //t is fraction of time 0-1 since transition began
                var marker = d3.select("#marker");
                
                // p is the point on the line (coordinates) at a given length
                // along the line. In this case if l=50 and we're midway through
                // the time then this would 25.
                var p = linePath.node().getPointAtLength(t * l);

//Move the marker to that point
                marker.attr("transform", "translate(" + p.x + "," + p.y + ")"); //move marker
                // console.log(p)
                
              if (tweenToggle == 0) {
                    tweenToggle = 1;
                    var newCenter = map.layerPointToLatLng(new L.Point(p.x,p.y));
                    //map.setView(newCenter, 14);
                    map.panTo(newCenter, 14);
                } else {
                    tweenToggle = 0;
                }

return interpolate(t);
            }
        } //end tweenDash

// Use Leaflet to implement a D3 geometric transformation.
        // the latLngToLayerPoint is a Leaflet conversion method:
        //Returns the map layer point that corresponds to the given geographical
        // coordinates (useful for placing overlays on the map).
        function projectPoint(x, y) {
            var point = map.latLngToLayerPoint(new L.LatLng(y, x));
            this.stream.point(point.x, point.y);
        } //end projectPoint
    });

// similar to projectPoint this function converts lat/long to
    // svg coordinates except that it accepts a point from our 
    // GeoJSON

function applyLatLngToLayer(d) {
        // console.log(d)
        var y = d.geometry.coordinates[1]
        var x = d.geometry.coordinates[0]
        return map.latLngToLayerPoint(new L.LatLng(y, x))

}
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