Local OpenLayers3 - SVG icon

Question

I have an OpenLayers3 map on my local filesystem, and I want a point layer to use SVG icons. This seems to fail silently:

var style = new ol.style.Style({
    image: new ol.style.Icon({
        size: [95, 95],
        src: "styles/transport_aerodrome.svg"
    })
});

Is this because the SVG, since it is a local file, does not have content-type, but OL3 needs SVGs to have content-type: image/svg+xml? Or is there another reason this fails, and a way to fix it?

Answer 1

I am not sure whether this is a file location problem or if it is a problem of the svg you use. As long as it is within the root folder of your app I can not see why is not working. Dont you have any firebug errors? try to use the following snip to check if it is working. I have tried it works fine.

var style = new ol.style.Style({
    image: new ol.style.Icon({
        src: 'http://www.williambuck.com/portals/0/Skins/WilliamBuck2014/images/location-icon.svg'
    })
});

Also consider removing the size you provide within your code snip. So call it like that

var style = new ol.style.Style({
image: new ol.style.Icon({
    src: "styles/transport_aerodrome.svg"
})
});

UPDATE if you can get the xml out of your svg file. try the following:

var svg = '<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" width="30px" height="30px" viewBox="0 0 30 30" enable-background="new 0 0 30 30" xml:space="preserve">'+    
'<path fill="#156BB1" d="M22.906,10.438c0,4.367-6.281,14.312-7.906,17.031c-1.719-2.75-7.906-12.665-7.906-17.031S10.634,2.531,15,2.531S22.906,6.071,22.906,10.438z"/>'+
'<circle fill="#FFFFFF" cx="15" cy="10.677" r="3.291"/></svg>';

var mysvg = new Image();
mysvg.src = 'data:image/svg+xml,' + encodeURIComponent(svg);

//and then declare your style with img and imgSize
var style = new ol.style.Style({
image: new ol.style.Icon({
    img: mysvg,
    imgSize:[30,30]
})
});

Answer 2

It works if you just put in the svg in the src element ol.style.Icon, but if you scale it, the svg will become unsharp. In my case I use the same svg for multiple Zoom Levels and wanted a different size each zoom Level.

The way i got the scaling problem work is:

function getVectorImage(src, size) {
    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    canvas.setAttribute("width", size);
    canvas.setAttribute("height", size);
    var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
    var img = new Image();
    img.onload = function() {
        ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, size, size);
    }
    img.src = src;
    return canvas;
}

//example: size = 25  and  imgSrc = "test.svg"
function getWfsStyle(size, imgSrc) {
    var img = getVectorImage(imgSrc, size);
    var style = new ol.style.Style({
        image : new ol.style.Icon({
            img : img,
            imgSize : [size, size]
        }),
        zIndex : 4
    });
    return style;
}

Answer 3

It turns out that SVGs in IE11 need the value imgSize setting to the SVG's native dimensions. That seems to have been the problem. However, it seems not to work with size, so I now need to find out how I can resize them client-side.

Answer 4

One thing that was missing for me was the width="Xpx" height="Ypx" attributes in the svg.