In my openlayers based application, I need to trigger zoom when user selects features so that all the selected features fit within the map extent.
I make use of this code:
map.getView().fit([swLong, swLat, neLong, neLat], map.getSize());
(swLong, swLat) is the south-west corner and (neLong, neLat) is the north-east corner of bounding box containing the selected features. These are in degrees.
What I am not sure is whether I need to provide these in pixels or degrees is the correct way?
The extent should be in view coordinates. The way you have specified size is correct for OpenLayers 3. For OpenLayers 4 and 5 the size defaults to map size so you don't need to specify it, but if you do I've included the OL4/5 syntax
map.getView().fit(ol.proj.transformExtent([swLong, swLat, neLong, neLat], 'EPSG:4326', map.getView().getProjection()), { size: map.getSize() });
Try the following functions
function goToBox(swLong, swLat, neLong, neLat, xview, xmap){
var xy1 = ol.proj.transform([swLong, swLat], 'EPSG:4326', 'EPSG:3857');
var xy2 = ol.proj.transform([neLong, neLat], 'EPSG:4326', 'EPSG:3857');
var lonLat = [(xy1[0] + xy2[0]) / 2, (xy1[1] + xy2[1]) / 2];
xview.setCenter(lonLat);
var screenSize = xmap.getSize();
xview.setZoom(zoomByResolution(lonLat[1], Math.max(Math.abs(xy2[0] - xy1[0]) / screenSize[0], Math.abs(xy2[1] - xy1[1]) / screenSize[1])));
}
function zoomByResolution(y, s){
var circumference = 40075016.686;
var val = circumference * Math.abs(Math.cos(y * Math.PI/180)) / s;
return Math.round(Math.log(val)/Math.log(2)) - 8;
}
Do not forget transform coordinates to EPSG:3857
