Leaflet is great for a lot of rudimentary mapping online (99% of what people need). If you’re doing heavier WebGIS I encourage looking at OpenLayers.
LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
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Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
#42I know someone that has used this for quite some time.
It’s an excellent library.
Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
#43How does it compare to this? https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js
* Leaflet is based completely on the web platform. It achieves a zoomable slippy map experience by animating DOM elements - usually image tiles. * MapLibre GL JS is a BSD licensed fork of Mapbox GL JS version 1. Instead of consuming bitmap image tiles, it consumes tiles corresponding to the same coordinate extents as the above tiles, but containing tagged geometry features. So instead of sending a PNG image you're se…
Thanks!
Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
#44Leaflet is great for polygon annotations. It is used by Labelbox and Supervisely.
Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depending on the use case, you may be able to host tiles on any web host/cdn
You still have to pay for the server you host it yourself on. Which usually means generating the tiles from scratch rather than relying on some precached ones. The prices for something like mapbox are not outrageous for what they provide.
Here’s an example of statically hosting map tiles on GitHub Pages:
Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
#46Leaflet 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
I'm a freelance web developer for https://gamerguides.com/ which also uses Leaflet for video game maps. It's a little weird to get working with at first but it turns out it's well suited for that sort of use case. I love it.
Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
#47Having worked with leaflet extensively it's a pleasure to use. I've never encountered something I couldn't accomplish in the framework.
Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
#48A great library. I use it daily for web work. But recently I used it in an ionic framework mobile app. Simple cross-platform mobile map from a single code base? Yes please!
Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
#49I have used this and it is excellent. It is a tremendous alternative to all the paid GIS/mapping suites.
When I used it, I really wished it used JS inheritance rather than its own custom inheritance/mixins.
JavaScript inheritance wasn't really a thing when Leaflet started out, and definitely not widely-supported (is it even now?).
Re: LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depending on the use case, you may be able to host tiles on any web host/cdn
You still have to pay for the server you host it yourself on. Which usually means generating the tiles from scratch rather than relying on some precached ones. The prices for something like mapbox are not outrageous for what they provide.
> You still have to pay for the server you host it yourself on.
I mean, I guess? Can't it be presumed that if you have a web site upon which you wish to place a map, you've already got a web server set up one way or another?
> Which usually means generating the tiles from scratch rather than relying on some precached ones.
Well, yes. The way I've set it up for my client is basically that we start from a large image which will be the map at its maximum "zoom in level" and run a script which scales the map 50% smaller, dices the image into 256x256 tiles, and saves those tiles with a pre-defined naming scheme (something like Xcoord_Ycoord_Zoomlevel.png - I can't recall the details), then scales the original map by 25%, creates tiles from that, and repeats until the entire map can fit into four tiles (512x512). It's not terribly difficult stuff for a reasonably capable developer to do, though working with the larger maps can eat up a lot of RAM on the system we run this script on.