Loading Video Data and Playback Controls — Creating Interactive Maps with Leaflet

Introduction

With the development of the digital age, map technology plays an increasingly important role in our life and work. Maps are not just for telling us how to get to our destination, they can also display rich geographic information, visualize data, support location-based services and navigation and other functions. In the field of map technology, Leaflet is a widely used open source JavaScript map library, which has the characteristics of lightweight, ease of use, rich plugins, mobile-first, high performance, etc., and is loved and respected by many developers.

In this article, we will explore how to use Leaflet to load video data onto the map and control the video playback through custom control buttons. Let’s understand this process step by step.

Load video data

In Leaflet, to load video data onto the map, we can use the following code:

L.videoOverlay(videoUrls, bounds, {
    opacity: 0.8,
    errorOverlayUrl,
    interactive: true,
    autoplay: true,
    muted: true,
    playsInline: true
}).addTo(map)

In the above code, we used the L.videoOverlay () method to load the video data. This method requires the following parameters:

1. videoUrls : This is an array, the content of the array can be one or more video addresses. If there are multiple video addresses, the map will display the overlay…