[New Feature]: Support for moving vehicles in vector lines
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Checked for duplicates
Yes - I've already checked
Alternatives considered
Yes - and alternatives don't suffice
Related problems
While I can add a line representing a moving vehicle (e.g. car, ship, plane, drone, spacecraft) path, if I want to denote the latest/last known position, I have two options:
- create a separate point layer which represents the latest/last known position
- change layer styling and "attachements", which does allow custom styling of the end point, but is convoluted.
Describe the feature request
I want an easy way to style the last vertex on a line or series of points with a custom symbol, which can rotate based on a property (if a point). This would be to support showing vehicle tracks (e.g. car, ship, plane, drone, spacecraft).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the vector-line styling and attachment handling used for line layers. Trace how the final vertex is rendered and how point properties are read for rotation. Done should include a custom symbol on the last vertex, rotation from a point property, and coverage for the supported vehicle-track cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- data-visualization, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100