Force panning animation?

[mahemoff]

panTo() doc says "Makes an animated pan if new center is not more than one screen away from the current one."

Is there a way to force animation beyond this level? (even if it panned across a course-grained map)

[mourner]

Currently not, but there's a workaround:

var offset = map._getNewTopLeftPoint(latlng).subtract(map._getTopLeftPoint();
map.panBy(offset);

[mahemoff]

Works great, thanks :).

[mourner]

But I agree that this should be easier, so reopening the issue for future. :)

[JonasOlson]

I'm thinking a pan could zoom out an then in on the new point. That would be easier for the eye to follow if the pan is far and the map imagery needed during the animation would be less than for a pan without zoom (which would require something that scales linearly with the panning distance).

[mourner]

@JonasOlson I know what you mean, agree it would be a nice feature, though it's not trivial to implement.

[mourner]

Merged into #1616.