How to display disputed borders based on visitor’s location
This tutorial shows how to automatically change disputed borders according to your map visitor’s location usign the MapTiler Geolocation API.
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Copy the following code, paste it into your favorite text editor, and save it as a
.html
file. -
Replace
YOUR_MAPTILER_API_KEY_HERE
with your actual MapTiler API key. -
The next it’s up to you. You can start the map in a different place by modifying the
starting position
andstarting zoom
, and you can change the look of the map to any of our styles, or yours, by updating thestyle URL
. See what’s available here.</li> -
Install the npm package.
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Include the CSS file in the
<head>
of your HTML file. -
Include the following code in your JavaScript file (Example: app.js).
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Call MapTiler’s Geolocation API to get information about the visitor’s location based on the IP address.
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Create the
showDisputedBorders
function. This function changes the filters of the disputed border layers to show or hide the borders depending on the country’s policy. -
Add event handler for map
load
event. You will add code to change disputed borders according to your map visitor’s location in this handler. -
Get the user’s IP country code and call the
showDisputedBorders
function.
View complete source code on GitHub
Learn more
Check out the tutorials How to center map based on visitor’s location, How to change the map labels language based on visitor’s location and How to display the cookies consent bar according to the visitor’s location.
Visit the MapTiler Geolocation API reference for Geolocation response object properties. Like for example, the name of the country, the city, etc.
Visit the MapTiler Planter schema to know how it is organized into different thematic layers and which attribute and values each layer contains.
Learn more about Disputed borders on your maps
Check out the List of disputed border names and tags
Read How to build a map that is easy to read for users from a specific country
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