Torque API

Torque provides two kinds of visulizations.

static: provides a way to create heatmap like visualizations (note for Andrew: fon)
dinamyc: animate points over a map (note for Andrew: Navy)

depending on the map provider you are using you need to use different layer type. Currently we provide layers for Google Maps and Leaflet.

L.TorqueLayer(options)

Arguments: * options: object that contains the following attributes: - user: cartodb username - table: table name - column: time column - countby: aggregation per pixel, e.g: 'count(cartodb_id)', - resolution: pixel resolution, - is_time: true or false, - steps: animation steps, e.g: 750, - blendmode: canvas blend mode 'lighter'

L.TorqueLayer.setKey(time: number)

Arguments * time: set time to be displayed. Should be a number between [0, steps)

L.TorqueLayer.setCartoCSS(cartocss: string)

Arguments * cartocss: cartocss string that contains the point style. Torque does not support the full cartocss spec, only a small subset. value and zoom variables can be used. value is the value of aggregation (see countby constructor option). zoom is the current zoom being rendered

```
#layer {,
  marker-fill: #662506;
  marker-width: 20;
  [value > 1] { marker-fill: #FEE391; }
  [value > 2] { marker-fill: #FEC44F; }
  [value > 3] { marker-fill: #FE9929; }
  [value > 4] { marker-fill: #EC7014; }
  [value > 5] { marker-fill: #CC4C02; }
  [value > 6] { marker-fill: #993404; }
  [value > 7] { marker-fill: #662506; }
}
```

L.TiledTorqueLayer(options)

creates a static visualization Arguments: * options: - provider: 'url_template', - url: tile template url e.g 'http://host.com/{z}/{x}/{y}.json', (note to Andrew: link here to the json data format) - resolution: data resolution, e.g 4

L.TiledTorqueLayer.setKey(keys: number|array)

set keys to show, if it's an array all the keys in that array are accumulated

L.TiledTorqueLayer.setCartoCSS(cartocss: string)

value and zoom variables can be used. only polygon-fill property is supported currently

Example: #layer { polygon-fill: #FFFF00; [value >= 10] { polygon-fill: #FFCC00; } [value >= 100] { polygon-fill: #FF9900; } [value >= 1000] { polygon-fill: #FF6600; } [value >= 10000] { polygon-fill: #FF3300; } [value > 100000] { polygon-fill: #C00; } }

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