README.md

Angular library to parse and display geographical coordinates.

Installation

npm install angular-coordinates --save

Usage

Module

To have access to the Coordinates service, component and pipe, you need to import the Coordinates module into your AppModule or any other module you want to use the library.

// app.module.ts

import {NgModule} from '@angular/core'
import {CoordinatesModule} from 'angular-coordinates';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    CoordinatesModule
  ]
})
class AppModule {}

Component

Information

One way to display formatted coordinates is to use the GeoCoordinates component exposed by the CoordinatesModule. The component expects at least the value to be converted. Optionally you can provide a transformation type or direction.

Transformation type comes from the TransformationType enum and refers to one of the two types: "to degrees" (more human readable, eg. "10°0'0" N") and "to digit". By default, the "to degrees" value is used.

Direction is an enum with two values: latitude and longitude. The direction information is used when displaying geographical direction (N, S, W, E) and with the value validation. By default no direction is used so the output - if using the "to degree" transformation - won't get the direction marker and the value will allow [-180, 180] range.

Example

import {Component} from '@angular/core'
import {TransformationType, Direction} from 'angular-coordinates';

@Component({
  template: `
    <geo-coordinates [value]="10"></geo-coordinates>
    <geo-coordinates [value]="10.5" [direction]="direction.Latitude"></geo-coordinates>
    <geo-coordinates [value]="stringValue" [type]="type.toDigit"></geo-coordinates>`
})
class MyComponent {
  stringValue = '10°0\'0" N'
  direction = Direction
  type = TransformationType
}

<!-- Outcome -->
10°0'0"     <!-- Direction was not provided, so no "N" or "E". Transformed to degree by default. -->
10°30'0" N  <!-- Known direction. -->
10          <!-- Transforming to digit. -->

Pipe

Information

The coordinates pipe works in the same way as the GeoComponent. Actually, the component just uses coordinates internally, so there's no difference in how they work.

Pipe accepts two parameters: transformation type and direction. Refer to the component description to learn what they do. Both are optional.

Example

import {Component} from '@angular/core'
import {TransformationType, Direction} from 'angular-coordinates';

@Component({
  template: '{{ value | coordinates:TransformationType.toDegree:Direction.Latitude }}'
})
class MyComponent {
  value = 10
}

`10°0'0" N`

Service

Information

The coordinates service handles all the logic behind coordinates conversion and is used by both the pipe and component.

Methods

transform

This is the most generic method of transformation. It expects the value to be transformed, transformation type (from the TransformationType enum) and - optionally - the direction (from the Direction enum).

The transform methods returns either a string or a number, depending on what transformation type was used. If the value was invalid, empty string is returned instead.

transform(value: string | number | null, transformationType: TransformationType, direction?: Direction): string | number

transformToDigit

Specific transformation that transforms the provided value into a number.

transformToDigit(value: string | number): number

transformToDegrees

Specific transformation that transforms the provided value into a formatted string. Optionally accepts the direction (from the Direction enum) for enhanced validation and geographical direction marker ("N", "S", "W", "E").

transformToDegrees(value: string | number, direction?: Direction): string

isValueValid

Generic validator informing if the provided value is a proper digit or a string. Validity depends on the range, direction and format. Optional direction allows to properly validate the range (latitude is only [-90, 90] while longitude is [-180, 180]) and the geographical marker (eg. "N" and "S" are not valid longitude markers).

isValueValid(value: string | number | null, direction?: Direction): boolean

isValidDegree

Tests if the provided value is a valid coordinates string. Works in the same way as the isValueValid, but only for strings.

isValidDegree(value: string | number | null, direction?: Direction): boolean

isValidDigit

Tests if the provided value is a proper coordinates digit. Takes the ranges in consideration and - if the direction is provided - enhances this validation by understanding the proper boundaries for each direction.

isValidDigit(value: string | number | null, direction?: Direction): boolean

Example

import {Component} from '@angular/core'
import {CoordinatesService, TransformationType, Direction} from 'angular-coordinates';

@Component({
  template: '{{geolocation}}' // `10°0'0" N`
})
class MyComponent {
  constructor(coordinatesService: CoordinatesService) {
    this.geolocation = coordinatesService.transform(10, TransformationType.ToDegree, Direction.Latitude) // => `10°0'0" N`
    this.valid = coordinatesService.isValueValid(100, Direction.Latitude) // false, latitude allows only [-90, 90] values.
  }
}

License

MIT