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Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Post by SilverRed » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:34 PM UTC

hamburgerwah wrote: post #2

I have used this and it is excellent. It is a tremendous alternative to all the paid GIS/mapping suites.

You will pretty much always have to pay for the tileserver service though. The main benefit I saw was that you could trivially switch to any other tile service without being tied in to a particular one like if you used the google maps library.

Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Post by avel » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:36 PM UTC

vmarsy wrote: post #8

If you're looking for an actual demo of the product, it seems that the weather map on https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/maps?lat=47.6032&lon=-122.... is powered by leaflet. I really like the work they've done with the wind animations and historical air quality maps

That's pretty cool, it reminded me of Windy which is also pretty awesome. In fact, peeking at the source of windy, it looks like it also uses Leaflet!

https://www.windy.com

Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:37 PM UTC

SilverRed wrote: post #11

hamburgerwah wrote: post #2

I have used this and it is excellent. It is a tremendous alternative to all the paid GIS/mapping suites.

You will pretty much always have to pay for the tileserver service though. The main benefit I saw was that you could trivially switch to any other tile service without being tied in to a particular one like if you used the google maps library.

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Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Post by chx » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:39 PM UTC

https://automuseums.info/ is using leaflet, it is also doing some server side geoclustering. It's a mostly out of the box Drupal 9 site, there's custom code but very very little.

Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Post by mekkkkkk » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:40 PM UTC

Leaflet is fantastic. One of the more interesting use cases I've seen for it is the Guild Wars 2 wiki. They use it heavily to display the game map for regions, areas of interests etc. It's quite impressive, and very useful as a player!

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kryta#Interactive_Map

Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Post by amcaskill » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:40 PM UTC

Leaflet for R is fantastic as well. It has been a while since I have used R so there might be something better now, but I have fond memories of that package.

https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/map_widget.html

Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Post by tshaddox » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:41 PM UTC

hamburgerwah wrote: post #2

I have used this and it is excellent. It is a tremendous alternative to all the paid GIS/mapping suites.

I've used it and it's nice for use cases that match very closely to what they support and provide documentation/examples for. As a quick drop-in map widget on a web page, it's quite nice.

I've also used Mapbox which provides a much fancier OpenGL map with fancy things like continuous (smooth) zoom levels. Mapbox feels a lot more like a modern Google Maps-esque mapping widget. https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/

Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Post by panopticon » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:53 PM UTC

avel wrote: post #12

vmarsy wrote: post #8

If you're looking for an actual demo of the product, it seems that the weather map on https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/maps?lat=47.6032&lon=-122.... is powered by leaflet. I really like the work they've done with the wind animations and historical air quality maps

That's pretty cool, it reminded me of Windy which is also pretty awesome. In fact, peeking at the source of windy, it looks like it also uses Leaflet! https://www.windy.com

I just discovered that the other week when I was looking for a KML plugin for Leaflet. Windy maintains one!

https://github.com/windycom/leaflet-kml

Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Post by c-smile » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:56 PM UTC

the_third_wave wrote: post #4

LeafletJS is not just limited to mapping applications, it is used in LibreOffice online [1] to present pixmaps of rendered documents in the web client. [1] https://git.libreoffice.org/online/+/master/loleaflet/README

Leaflet works as it is in Sciter[1] too. SDK sample: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/tree/main/samples/l...

So it can be used in pretty much any native desktop application. Including desktop games that use DX11, DX12, Vulkan or Metal graphics.

[1] https://sciter.com

Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps

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Post by hutch120 » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 10:59 PM UTC

avel wrote: post #12

vmarsy wrote: post #8

If you're looking for an actual demo of the product, it seems that the weather map on https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/maps?lat=47.6032&lon=-122.... is powered by leaflet. I really like the work they've done with the wind animations and historical air quality maps

That's pretty cool, it reminded me of Windy which is also pretty awesome. In fact, peeking at the source of windy, it looks like it also uses Leaflet! https://www.windy.com

Interesting that Windy uses a version from 2018. (v1.4)