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Video on a map

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Add a video

This source code of this example is adapted from the MapLibre GL JS example - Add a video.

Uncomment the following line to install leafmap if needed.

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# %pip install "leafmap[maplibre]"

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import leafmap.maplibregl as leafmap

To run this notebook, you will need an API key from MapTiler. Once you have the API key, you can uncomment the following code block and replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual API key. Then, run the code block code to set the API key as an environment variable.

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# import os
# os.environ["MAPTILER_KEY"] = "YOUR_API_KEY"

The urls value is an array. For each URL in the array, a video element source will be created. To support the video across browsers, supply URLs in multiple formats. The coordinates array contains [longitude, latitude] pairs for the video corners listed in clockwise order: top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left.

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m = leafmap.Map(
    center=[-122.514426, 37.562984], zoom=17, bearing=-96, style="satellite"
)
urls = [
    "https://static-assets.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/drone.mp4",
    "https://static-assets.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/drone.webm",
]
coordinates = [
    [-122.51596391201019, 37.56238816766053],
    [-122.51467645168304, 37.56410183312965],
    [-122.51309394836426, 37.563391708549425],
    [-122.51423120498657, 37.56161849366671],
]
m.add_video(urls, coordinates)
m.add_layer_control()
m


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m = leafmap.Map(center=[-115, 25], zoom=4, style="satellite")
urls = [
    "https://data.opengeos.org/patricia_nasa.mp4",
    "https://data.opengeos.org/patricia_nasa.webm",
]
coordinates = [
    [-130, 32],
    [-100, 32],
    [-100, 13],
    [-130, 13],
]
m.add_video(urls, coordinates)
m.add_layer_control()
m