Animations

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Creating custom webmap animations

Micro animations in web applications are useful to guide users' attention. Web map libraries come with a fixed set of built-in animations, like panning, zooming, and sometimes fading styles. What if we want to do more? Using requestAnimationFrame(), we can create our own, custom animations.

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Creating custom webmap animations - Controlling duration

In the first part, we set up the application, and added animation to the feature we're adding to the map. Now let's dive into controlling the animation's duration.

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Creating custom webmap animations - Adding easing

In this last part in the series of webmap animations, let's make our animation more pleasing by adding easing. Also, see how it looks in OpenLayers.

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