Draw Flight Routes (Great Circle Arcs) on Map

[timo.meinen]

Hi, I would like to use the Map component to draw airline flight routes between city pairs.

I am new to the component and would appreciate a short “jump start” where I should begin my journey? Do I need a layer for this? Can I directly interact with the map?

In OpenLayers, I have found a solution, but do not fully understand, if this could be used with the Vaadin Map component.

This one is nice, as it even animates the flight by date - exactly, what I want:

https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/flight-animation.html

Any ideas how to implement it in Vaadin?

[ollit.1 (Olli Tietäväinen)]

Vaadin Map is currently missing the feature you’d probably want to use for that, see the following tickets:

• [map] Add LineStringFeature · Issue #2885 · vaadin/flow-components · GitHub
• [map] Add MultiLineStringFeature · Issue #2886 · vaadin/flow-components · GitHub
• [map] Add PolygonFeature · Issue #2891 · vaadin/flow-components · GitHub
• [map] Add MultiPolygonFeature · Issue #2895 · vaadin/flow-components · GitHub
  The Enhanced Map add-on (which builds on Vaadin Map) has the Polygon feature, which you might be able to use, but it’s not the same as lines: Enhanced Map - Vaadin Add-on Directory

[timo.meinen]

Thank you! I will keep an eye on the issues.

[mmlopez (Martín López)]

The Enhanced Map add-on can be used as a general guideline on how to extend the map component in case you would like to add new features. It was made by taking an example from here: OpenLayers Examples