A leaflet plugin to animate markers.

The plugin is designed as a framework for highly concurrent animation of markers on a map. For all of the animated markers, the update callbacks to update their visual are stacked into a single requestAnimFrame instead of multiple calls. Using single requestAnimFrame improves performance over multiple requestAnimFrame for large number of calls (The referenced benchmark can be found here )

Besides a built-in implementation of marker movment callback to move marker between geo points, custom callback can be easily built to facilitate different type of animation for markers (e.g update icons, labels...)

Visualization of Bay Area Bike Sharing Trips with Leaflet.PowerMarker

PowerMarker extends Leaflet.Marker therefore all functionalities of Leaflet.Marker exists with PowerMarker. It can also be used in conjunction with other Marker plugin for Leaflet. For example Leaflet.awesome-markers and Leaflet.label.

var marker = L.Marker.powerMarker( <LatLng> latlng, <Marker_options> options? ).addTo(map); 

PowerMarker is created just like normal Leaflet.Marker

marker.addCallback( <Function> callback )

The callback function is passed two arguments:

• elapsed: the time in millisecond that has elapsed between animation frames. It is useful to know how much time has passed between frames in order to calculate exactly the new state of the marker.
• timestamp: the timestamp when the frame starts. Thus all callbacks function will have the same timestamp.

marker.start(); 
...
marker.stop(); 

Added callbacks for the marker will be invoked continously when the browser paints new frame for the page until stop() is called.

Marker animation can also be paused and resumed:

marker.pause(); 
...
marker.resume(); 

To speed up or slow down each marker animation, set the speed factor parameter with:

marker.speed( <Float> speedfactor );

For example, to double speed of the marker, use: marker.speed(2.0). Set speed factor to 1 to reset.

var mov = L.Marker.PowerMarker.movement( <LatLng[]> destinations,
<Number[]> durations )

The L.Marker.PowerMarker.movement function takes two array arguments: the list of destinations and the respective durations in millisecond. The returned object is a function which takes two arguments elapsed and timestamp. When the marker starts, it will move to these destinations in order. The marker automatically stops when it finishes the path:

marker.addCallback( mov );
marker.start();