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# Programmatic Control

There's two ways to interact with the map - that is to control it, as well as receive data from it - and it's current viewport, aka. 'camera'.

## via User Gestures

The first way is through user interaction, where they perform gestures (such as drags/pans), and the map reacts automatically to those gestures to change the camera view of the map.

These are usually restricted by [Options](/v6/usage/options.md). It is possible to disable all input, either by disabling all gestures, or by wrapping the map with something like `IgnorePointer`.

## via Programmatic Means

When using programmatic means, there's two methods to most things, dependent on whether the context is within a `FlutterMap` (ie. usually a layer) or not.

If within `FlutterMap`'s context, the methods usually cause automatic rebuilding. As well as the pages below, also see [/pages/PHCyJci0lnfcS8LgyvNw#2.-hooking-into-inherited-state](https://docs.fleaflet.dev/v6/usage/pages/PHCyJci0lnfcS8LgyvNw#2.-hooking-into-inherited-state "mention").

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[Control Camera](/v6/usage/programmatic-control/controller.md)
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[Get Camera](/v6/usage/programmatic-control/get-camera.md)
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[Listen To Events](/v6/usage/programmatic-control/listen-to-events.md)
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