Keeping a shape at the back

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the detail.

If I draw the circles first and then add a few routes the circles disappear for some reason.

Odd, I wasn’t able to replicate this.

So, I added all the routes and lastly the circles but as these shapes are in the foreground when the page loads I can’t click on any of the enclosed routes (lines).

So, is there a way of pushing the shape to the back?

Right – understood. The easiest way I could think of doing this would be to use the Waymark Public Export feature (and Overlay Filter) to export the Shapes and Lines into separate GeoJSON files.

When you create a new Map, importing the Shapes first and then the Lines second should put them in the desired order (like this).

Hopefully this does the trick. Another option would be to manually edit the GeoJSON and move the Shape features from the end to the start of the content.

Let me know if this doesn’t do the trick. I will think on how this can be improved.

Also, is it possible to change the text in the map box? I would like to have something else instead of “Shapes” (I can’t think of what at the moment!) and “Walks” instead of “Lines”.

Not easily! I will look into improving this also because I realise these are very generic.

The best way I can think of achieving this is with JavaScript/jQuery. This is pretty crude, but it just replaces the relevant text when the page loads:

<script>
 jQuery(document).ready(function() {
  var control = jQuery('.waymark-map .leaflet-control-layers').first();
  
  if(control.length) {
   jQuery('.leaflet-control-layers-overlays b', control).each(function() {
    var label_text = jQuery(this).text();
    
    switch(label_text) {
     case 'Markers' : 
      label_text = 'Points';
      
      break;

     case 'Lines' : 
      label_text = 'Routes';
      
      break;

     case 'Shapes' : 
      label_text = 'Areas';
      
      break;            
    }
    
    jQuery(this).text(label_text)    
   });   
  }
 });
</script>

I hope that helps.

Cheers,

Joe

P.S. I noticed a slight error on your “Basemaps” Getting Started page: Under Examples you have “Thuderforest”. You probably have a similar keyboard to me!

Appreciated!

Joe

Hi Joe,

I really appreciate your help and thoughts on this.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to get any of your suggestions to work. Maybe my 72 year old brain is more fried than I thought!

I might just relax on this and leave things as they are, maybe even drop the ‘shapes’ from the map – less is more, sort of thing.

Cheers,
Phil.