polyline.dart

Polyline encoding is a lossy compression algorithm that allows you to store a series of coordinates as a single string.

Polyline is a dart port of Google's Polyline Algorithm explained here. Inspired by Mapbox's polyline.js. Compatible with Dart 2.

Installation

Add polyline: ^1.0.2 to your pubspec.yaml. Then run:

pub get # flutter pub get

Usage

A simple usage example:
Two named constructors are provided Polyline.Decode and Polyline.Encode.

Calling Polyline.Encode will compute the encodedString and set the passed in coordinates to decodedCoords on the instance of Polyline so that each instance of Polyline has access to the correct encoded string and subsequent decoded coordinates. Likewise, calling Polyline.Decode computes the list of coordinates from the encoded string and sets the passed in encoded string to the instance of Polyline.

Note that a precision of 5 is standard.

import 'package:polyline/polyline.dart';

void main() {
  Polyline polyline;

  /// List<List<double> coordinates;
  const coordinates = [
    [33.80119, -84.34788],
    [35.10566, -80.8762],
    [30.4526, -81.71116],
    [28.57888, -81.2717]
  ];
  const precision = 5;
  const encoded = 'mxhmEfeyaO}w}F_aeTrxk[nabDv}lJsytA';

  // Encode a list of coordinates with precision 5 to produce the encoded string
  polyline = Polyline.Encode(decodedCoords: coordinates, precision: 5);
  print('Encoded String: ${polyline.encodedString}, Coords: ${polyline.decodedCoords}');

  // Decode an encoded string to a list of coordinates
  polyline = Polyline.Decode(encodedString: encoded, precision: precision);
  print('Decoded Coords: ${polyline.decodedCoords}');
  print('String: ${polyline.encodedString}');

  // Calculate the distance of an encoded polyline, and decode the polyline
  polyline =  Polyline.Distance(encodedString: encoded,  unit: 'kilometers');
  // By calling  length the encodedString, decodedCoords, and distance variables
  // of the Polyline class are available
  print('Distance: ${polyline.distance.floor()}km , Encoded String: ${polyline.encodedString} Decoded Coords: ${polyline.decodedCoords}');

Documentation

Api Documentation

Development for v1.0.3

Multiple flags for extended capabilities

• X add haversine
• X add haversine distance
• Todo add merge polylines
• Todo add merge multiple polylines
• Todo add from geoJson

Features and bugs

Please file feature requests and bugs at the issue tracker.