I have a standard leaflet map showing a tile layer. Now leaflet only lets you use panTo method using LatLng for example,

map.panTo(new L.LatLng(40.17, -98.12));

How will I use above panTo method if my coordinates are in EPSG:3857 for example (3679364.68,-9096106.74) ?

This is quite simple to to in Openlayers as once you define a map projection everything works in that projection. But Leaflet always works on latlng on the outside.

Any simple way to accomplish this using leaflet library?

Thanks!

I have a standard leaflet map showing a tile layer. Now leaflet only lets you use panTo method using LatLng for example,

map.panTo(new L.LatLng(40.17, -98.12));

How will I use above panTo method if my coordinates are in EPSG:3857 for example (3679364.68,-9096106.74) ?

This is quite simple to to in Openlayers as once you define a map projection everything works in that projection. But Leaflet always works on latlng on the outside.

Any simple way to accomplish this using leaflet library?

Thanks!

• javascript
• maps
• gis
• leaflet

3 Answers 3

Leaflet lets you use panTo method by unproject 3857 point. If you don't want to use proj4js library it also achieve in leaflet.

var point = new L.Point(3679364.68,-9096106.74); // Lon/Lat
var earthRadius = 6378137;
var latlng = L.Projection.SphericalMercator.unproject(point.divideBy(earthRadius));

map.panTo(new L.LatLng(latlng.lat, latlng.lng));

I can get it working if I use proj4js library to transform the coordinates by doing this:

var source = new Proj4js.Proj('EPSG:3857');
var dest = new Proj4js.Proj('EPSG:4326');
var p = new Proj4js.Point(-9096106.74,3679364.68); //this takes x,y
Proj4js.transform(source, dest, p);
this.map.setView(new L.LatLng(p.y, p.x),zoom);

But this is still not an ideal solution as it taxes me a Megabyte for for including the library. I am still looking for a leaflet solution. Knowing that internally leaflet already uses EPSG:3857 to fetch tiles, this shouldn't be this difficult.

Update

To do this purely in Leaflet, look at @ARsl's answer. Only reason I still accept this as my answer because, still feel uncomfortable doing the projection calculations like that (not that they are wrong), and just for that reason I don't accept this answer. Plus proj4js as added advantages of supporting many more datums.

UPDATE

Check @Moos'SamuelSilver 's comment for this answer for another way to do this in leaflet without proj4js:

Leaflet.CRS.EPSG3857.unproject(Leaflet.point(x,y)) does the job pretty well. Source and further informations: leafletjs.com/reference.html#crs

I also haven't found any built-in method to convert EPSG:3857 coordinates to LatLng.

LeafLet crs class L.CRS.EPSG3857 has only project method which converts L.LatLng to L.Point in EPSG:3857 coordinates. https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/blob/master/src/geo/crs/CRS.EPSG3857.js

But it is quite easy to extend it with unproject method:

L.CRS.EPSG3857.unproject = function (point) { // Point -> LatLng
  var earthRadius = 6378137;
      projectionPoint = L.point(point).divideBy(earthRadius);

  return this.projection.unproject(projectionPoint);
};

Then you can use it with panTo method:

map.panTo(map.options.crs.unproject([1372720.6476878107, 5690559.995203462]));

or:

map.panTo(L.CRS.EPSG3857.unproject([1372720.6476878107, 5690559.995203462]));