View on GitHub Sample viewer app

Display coordinate system grids including Latitude/Longitude, MGRS, UTM and USNG on a map view. Also, toggle label visibility and change the color of grid lines and grid labels.

Image of display grid

Use case

Grids are often used on printed maps, but can also be helpful on digital maps, to identify locations on a map.

How to use the sample

Use the controls to select the type of grid from Grid Type (LatLong, MGRS, UTM and USNG), and to modify its properties like label visibility, grid line color, and grid label color. Click the ‘Update’ button to see the result.

How it works

  1. Create an instance of one of the Grid types.
  2. Grid lines and labels can be styled per grid level with setLineSymbol(gridLevel, lineSymbol) and setTextSymbol(gridLevel, textSymbol) methods on the grid.
  3. The label position can be set with setLabelPosition(labelPosition) method on the grid.
  4. For the LatitudeLongitudeGrid type, you can specify a label format of DECIMAL_DEGREES or DEGREES_MINUTES_SECONDS.
  5. To set the grid, use the setGrid(grid) method on the map view.

Relevant API

  • Grid
  • LatitudeLongitudeGrid
  • LineSymbol
  • MapView
  • MgrsGrid
  • SimpleLineSymbol
  • TextSymbol
  • UsngGrid
  • UtmGrid

Tags

coordinates, degrees, graticule, grid, latitude, longitude, MGRS, minutes, seconds, USNG, UTM

Sample Code

module-info.java module-info.java DisplayGridController.java DisplayGridSample.java
/*
* Copyright 2022 Esri.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
module com.esri.samples.display_grid {
// require ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java module
requires com.esri.arcgisruntime;
// handle SLF4J http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder
requires org.slf4j.nop;
// require JavaFX modules that the application uses
requires javafx.graphics;
requires javafx.controls;
requires javafx.fxml;
// make all @FXML annotated objects reflectively accessible to the javafx.fxml module
opens com.esri.samples.display_grid to javafx.fxml;
exports com.esri.samples.display_grid;
}