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Leaflet is the most popular open-source JavaScript library for used to publish mobile-friendly interactive maps. | |
It was developed by Vladimir Agafonkin and released in May of 2011. | |
"If you see a really awesome map on some huge website, if it's not google maps, it will probably be Leaflet." -Vladimir Agafonkin 10/4/13 | |
Leaflet is a simple, light weight library, just about 30 KB of JS or roughly 6,800 lines of code (nod to JC). | |
Leaflet has all the features most developers ever need for online maps, including tiles, vector data, markers, popup data so a user can zoom, pan around, locate - basically everything users are accustom to doing with google maps. | |
Leaflet is used by Flickr, Foursquare, Github, MapBox, most major Newspapers, numerous government agencies, Meetup and Wikipedia | |
Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usability in mind. Works across all major desktop and mobile platforms out of the box. | |
It can be extended with a huge amount of plugins, has an easy to use and well-documented API and simple, readable source code. | |
Leaflet is provider-agnostic, meaning it doesn't provide map imagery on its own. You can use Leaflet with any map provider, like OpenStreetMap, MapBox, Bing Maps, ArcGis, Nokia Here or MapQuest Open or even create your own map (TileMill). OpenStreetMap is the most popular. |
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