OpenLayers with projection switch




OpenLayers map using Proj4js and Equal Earth tile grid. Vector tiles styled with GL JSON. Projection switches when longitude of map center passes 75°, -45° or -150° (+/- 5°).

HTML:

<div id='map'></div>
<pre id="center"></pre>

Javascript:

proj4.defs('EPSG:8857', '+proj=eqearth +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +R=6371008.7714 +units=m +no_defs +type=crs');
proj4.defs('EPSG:8858', '+proj=eqearth +lon_0=-90 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +R=6371008.7714 +units=m +no_defs +type=crs');
proj4.defs('EPSG:8859', '+proj=eqearth +lon_0=150 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +R=6371008.7714 +units=m +no_defs +type=crs');
ol.proj.proj4.register(proj4);

const extent = [-17243959.06, -17243959.06, 17243959.06, 17243959.06];

const resolutions = [
  134718.43015625, 67359.215078125, 33679.6075390625, 16839.80376953125, 8419.901884765624, 4209.950942382812, 2104.975471191406, 1052.487735595703, 526.2438677978515, 263.12193389892576, 131.56096694946288, 65.78048347473144, 32.89024173736572, 16.44512086868286, 8.22256043434143, 4.111280217170715, 2.0556401085853575, 1.0278200542926788, 0.5139100271463394, 0.2569550135731697, 0.12847750678658484, 0.06423875339329242, 0.03211937669664621, 0.016059688348323106, 0.008029844174161553
];

const tileGrid = new ol.tilegrid.TileGrid({
    extent: extent,
    resolutions: resolutions,
    tileSize: 256
  });

const sources = Object.fromEntries(['8857', '8858', '8859'].map(epsg => {
  const code = `EPSG:${epsg}`;
  const projection = ol.proj.get(code);
  projection.setGlobal(true);
  projection.setExtent(extent);
  projection.setWorldExtent([-90, -180, 90, 180]);

  const source = new ol.source.VectorTile({
    format: new ol.format.MVT(),
    tileGrid: tileGrid,
    tilePixelRatio: 16,
    url: `https://assets.bbox.earth/tiles/ne_extracts_${epsg}/ne_countries/{z}/{x}/{y}.pbf`,
    projection: projection
  });

  return [code, source];
}));

const source = sources['EPSG:8857'];
var mvt = new ol.layer.VectorTile({
  declutter: true,
  source: source
});

olms.applyStyle(mvt, location.origin + '/natural-earth-countries-style.json');

var map = new ol.Map({
  layers: [mvt],
  target: 'map',
  view: new ol.View({
    center: [0, 0],
    projection: source.getProjection(),
    zoom: 1
  })
});

function centerLonLat(view) {
  return ol.proj.toLonLat(view.getCenter(), view.getProjection());
}

function display(id, coords, projcode) {
  document.getElementById(id).innerHTML =
    projcode + ' | Center longitude: ' + coords.map(v => v.toFixed(2));
}

function updateProjection(source) {
  const projection = source.getProjection();
  const view = map.getView();
  if (view.getProjection() != projection) {
    var ll = centerLonLat(view);
    map.setView(new ol.View({
      center: ol.proj.fromLonLat(ll, projection),
      projection: projection,
      zoom: view.getZoom()
    }));
    mvt.setSource(source);
  }
}

function onMoveEnd(evt) {
  const map = evt.map;
  const center_lon = centerLonLat(map.getView())[0];
  display('center', [center_lon], map.getView().getProjection().getCode());
  if (center_lon >= 80 || center_lon < -155 ) {
    updateProjection(sources['EPSG:8859']);
  } else if (center_lon >= -40 && center_lon < 70) {
    updateProjection(sources['EPSG:8857']);
  } else if (center_lon >= -145 && center_lon < -50) {
    updateProjection(sources['EPSG:8858']);
  }
}

map.on('moveend', onMoveEnd);

Header:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ol@9.1.0/dist/ol.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ol@9.1.0/ol.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/proj4@2.11.0/dist/proj4.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ol-mapbox-style@12.3.1/dist/olms.js"></script>