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Getting our data in place!

Go ahead and start the live server to make sure that the code is up and running. In Firefox, open up the Debug Console (Right Button then click inspect element OR press F12) and click on the array from last week:

Remember that in an JSON object, keys are essentially the field names:

And values are the contents:

Remember to access a value, you have to access the object and then the key using . dot notation or the ['name of field'] bracket notation.

For example, last lab when we wanted the lat data, we used data.lat:

addMarker(data.lat,data.lng,data['What zip code do you live in?'],data['Have you been vaccinated?'])

Prepping the divs

🏃Warm-up: Add a div for the survey

Before we do anything to new, let’s move our survey into its own div!

Answer
index.html
    <div id="contents">
        <div id="theSurvey">
            <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScD0IOr_U4r0q4HlBkZ7olkA5OJpgInePF8DQbIrIWDeTm1jw/viewform?embedded=true" width="640" height="720" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading…</iframe> 
        </div>
    </div>

Let’s also change the height and width to 100% so the iframe can finally follow our CSS rules!

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScD0IOr_U4r0q4HlBkZ7olkA5OJpgInePF8DQbIrIWDeTm1jw/viewform?embedded=true" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading…</iframe>

With the survey in its own div now, we can then add a <div> for our new content:

index.html
        <div id="contents">
            <div id="placeForButtons">
            <div id="theSurvey">
                <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScD0IOr_U4r0q4HlBkZ7olkA5OJpgInePF8DQbIrIWDeTm1jw/viewform?embedded=true" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading…</iframe>
            </div>
        </div>

Adding a function again?

Now, let’s look at the location key. We probably want to add the locations to our contents to see what locations or showing up, as some people might put the same location more than twice!

We probably want to make buttons from these locations soooo....

Warm-up question: Create buttons (call-back to lab #2)!!

Question

Which line should we put this create buttons function: createButtons(lat,lng,location);

Answers

It should go in our addMarker() function! So that when we add markers, the buttons are added afterwards!

Add the line for the createButton() function in our JavaScript file:

js/init.js
function addMarker(lat,lng,title,message){
    // console.log(message)
    L.marker([lat,lng]).addTo(map).bindPopup(`<h2>${title}</h2> <h3>${message}</h3>`)
    createButtons(lat,lng,location)
    return message
}

Refactor the addMarker()

Notice how the addMarker() has a lot of parameters now? Like, 4? That’s quite a lot, and will be harder to manage if we want to add more.

So, let’s pass in the whole Object instead of pieces of the object like so: addMarker(data)

Before proceeding to the exercise make sure your addMarker() call looks like the following inside the processData() function:

js/init.js
function processData(results){
    console.log(results)
    results.data.forEach(data => {
        console.log(data)
        addMarker(data)
    })
}

⚽In-class Exercise #1 - Refactor the addMarker() function

We are refactoring the addMarker() function during our loop to take in the whole object as a parameter. How might we re-write our addMaker() function to take in the object?

Tasks

  1. Re-write the addMarker() function to take in the data object from the forEach() loop.
Answer
js/init.js
function addMarker(data){
    // console.log(data['What zip code do you live in?'])
    L.marker([data.lat,data.lng]).addTo(map).bindPopup(`<h2>${data['What zip code do you live in?']}</h2> <h3>${data['Have you been vaccinated?']}</h3>`)
    createButtons(data.lat,data.lng,data['What zip code do you live in?'])
    return data['What zip code do you live in?']
}

Important note!

  1. Make sure you changed the return message line in the end of the function, otherwise it will break since it message is not defined anywhere!

  2. Make sure we use data object! Which means making sure we use the object + . + key format.

Reminder about accessing object-keys again

Remember, since our data is being stored in an object, the createButton() function should look like this:

createButtons(data.lat,data.lng,data['What zip code do you live in?'])
  • Where we are accessing the data object’s lat, lng, and location.

Note

Your keys== MUST always match your data ==object, you can use the console to check!!

For example: If your survey spreadsheet has latitude instead of lat then the you MUST use data.latitude

And now, just like in lab 3, we are going to add buttons!

Here’s the createButton() from lab 3:

function createButtons(lat,lng,title){
    const newButton = document.createElement("button"); // adds a new button
    newButton.id = "button"+title; // gives the button a unique id
    newButton.innerHTML = title; // gives the button a title
    newButton.setAttribute("lat",lat); // sets the latitude 
    newButton.setAttribute("lng",lng); // sets the longitude 
    newButton.addEventListener('click', function(){
        map.flyTo([lat,lng]); //this is the flyTo from Leaflet
    })
    document.body.appendChild(newButton); //this adds the button to our page.
}

Wait.. it didn’t work? Well, that’s because we have to tweak a few things…

  1. Next we need to change the document.body.appendChild(newButton) to use the div that we created earlier!

Adding buttons to our div

To address the second issue of targeting our div, we need to utilize the JavaScript method of selecting Elements called:

getElementById()

Learn more about getElementById()

Just running the method doesn’t do anything, so we need to store it in a variable:

const spaceForButtons = document.getElementById('placeForButtons')

Remember the appendChild() that adds content? We will use that method to add our button to our spaceForButtons variable that specifies the div:

spaceForButtons.appendChild(newButton);

The final createButtons() and addMarker() functions should look like this:

function addMarker(data){
        // console.log(data)
        // these are the names of our lat/long fields in the google sheets:


        L.marker([data.lat,data.lng]).addTo(map).bindPopup(`<h2>${data['What zip code do you live in?']}</h2> <h3>${data['Have you been vaccinated?']}</h3>`)
        // adding our create button function
        createButtons(data.lat,data.lng,data['What zip code do you live in?'])
        return data['What zip code do you live in?']
}

function createButtons(lat,lng,title){
    const newButton = document.createElement("button"); // adds a new button
    newButton.id = "button"+title; // gives the button a unique id
    newButton.innerHTML = title; // gives the button a title
    newButton.setAttribute("lat",lat); // sets the latitude 
    newButton.setAttribute("lng",lng); // sets the longitude 
    newButton.addEventListener('click', function(){
        map.flyTo([lat,lng]); //this is the flyTo from Leaflet
    })
    const spaceForButtons = document.getElementById('placeForButtons')
    spaceForButtons.appendChild(newButton);//this adds the button to our page.
}

Horrah!!

Our current HTML structure

Here’s a quick schematic of our HTML and CSS:

HTML
  └BODY
     └.main
        ├#contents
        │    ├#placeForButtons
        │    └#survey
        └#the_map

Check to see if your JavaScript and HTML code is similar to the following before moving on.

🏁Check point

js/init.js
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// declare variables
let mapOptions = {'center': [34.0709,-118.444],'zoom':5}

// use the variables
const map = L.map('the_map').setView(mapOptions.center, mapOptions.zoom);

L.tileLayer('https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
    attribution: '&copy; <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors'
}).addTo(map);

function addMarker(data){
    // console.log(data)
    // these are the names of our lat/long fields in the google sheets:
    L.marker([data.lat,data.lng]).addTo(map).bindPopup(`<h2>${data['What zip code do you live in?']}</h2> <h3>${data['Have you been vaccinated?']}</h3>`)
    createButtons(data.lat,data.lng,data['What zip code do you live in?'])
    return
}

function createButtons(lat,lng,title){
    const newButton = document.createElement("button"); // adds a new button
    newButton.id = "button"+title; // gives the button a unique id
    newButton.innerHTML = title; // gives the button a title
    newButton.setAttribute("lat",lat); // sets the latitude 
    newButton.setAttribute("lng",lng); // sets the longitude 
    newButton.addEventListener('click', function(){
        map.flyTo([lat,lng]); //this is the flyTo from Leaflet
    })
    const spaceForButtons = document.getElementById('placeForButtons')
    spaceForButtons.appendChild(newButton);//this adds the button to our page.
}

const dataUrl = "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSNq8_prhrSwK3CnY2pPptqMyGvc23Ckc5MCuGMMKljW-dDy6yq6j7XAT4m6GG69CISbD6kfBF0-ypS/pub?output=csv"

function loadData(url){
    Papa.parse(url, {
        header: true,
        download: true,
        complete: results => processData(results)
    })
}

function processData(results){
    console.log(results)
    results.data.forEach(data => {
        console.log(data)
        addMarker(data)
    })
}

loadData(dataUrl)
index.html
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Lab 6</title>
        <!-- hint: remember to change your page title! -->
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <link rel="shortcut icon" href="#">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css">

        <!-- Leaflet's css-->
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/leaflet@1.7.1/dist/leaflet.css" />

        <!-- Leaflet's JavaScript-->
        <script src="https://unpkg.com/leaflet@1.7.1/dist/leaflet.js"></script>

        <!-- Papa Parse -->
        <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/PapaParse/5.3.0/papaparse.min.js"></script>
    </head>

    <body>
        <header>
            <!-- space for a menu -->
        </header>

        <div class="main">
            <div id="contents">
                <div id="placeForButtons">
                <div id="theSurvey">
                    <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScD0IOr_U4r0q4HlBkZ7olkA5OJpgInePF8DQbIrIWDeTm1jw/viewform?embedded=true" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading…</iframe>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div id="the_map"></div>
        </div>
        <div id="footer">
            Copyright(2022)
        </div>
        <script src="js/init.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>