[HN Gopher] LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
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LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps
Author : x14km2d
Score : 84 points
Date : 2021-08-16 21:32 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| chx wrote:
| 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.
| mekkkkkk wrote:
| 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
| amcaskill wrote:
| 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
| beezischillin wrote:
| Just a heads up, if you are looking into using this in your
| project: The popup onclick triggers are currently broken in the
| latest version under Safari, using an older version solves it.
|
| Other than that this is an awesome library with tons of great
| plugins that I've used for years now.
| the_third_wave wrote:
| 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
| c-smile wrote:
| 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
| dang wrote:
| Some past related threads:
|
| _How to Make Maps Using Leaflet.js, PostGIS and Chicago Open
| Data_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19784355 - April
| 2019 (20 comments)
|
| _Leaflet - A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive
| maps_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149725 - Jan 2018
| (36 comments)
|
| _Leaflet: An open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly
| interactive maps_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13095390
| - Dec 2016 (71 comments)
|
| _Leaflet 1.0 - A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly
| interactive maps_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12589447
| - Sept 2016 (99 comments)
|
| _D3 and Leaflet maps (2012)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11017763 - Feb 2016 (8
| comments)
|
| _Show HN: Lens Battle - Make comparing lenses easier (with
| leaflet.js)_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279358 -
| Sept 2015 (11 comments)
|
| _Show HN: Quizzity - a geographical quiz built on top of a
| Leaflet map_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8981162 - Feb
| 2015 (6 comments)
|
| _Show HN: Traverse City Platmap with Leaflet and D3_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8164315 - Aug 2014 (6
| comments)
|
| _Testing web map APIs - Google vs OpenLayers vs Leaflet_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451375 - March 2014 (12
| comments)
|
| _Show HN: Earthquakes on Leaflet, Crossfilter and D3_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157054 - Feb 2013 (7
| comments)
|
| _Leaftlet - A Lightweight JavaScript Library for Interactive
| Maps_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746178 - July 2011
| (21 comments)
| mistrial9 wrote:
| thx dang !
| vmarsy wrote:
| 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
| avel wrote:
| 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!
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| https://www.windy.com
| panopticon wrote:
| I just discovered that the other week when I was looking for
| a KML plugin for Leaflet. Windy maintains one!
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| https://github.com/windycom/leaflet-kml
| hutch120 wrote:
| Interesting that Windy uses a version from 2018. (v1.4)
| hamburgerwah wrote:
| I have used this and it is excellent. It is a tremendous
| alternative to all the paid GIS/mapping suites.
| SilverRed wrote:
| 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.
| [deleted]
| tshaddox wrote:
| 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/
| hajile wrote:
| When I used it, I really wished it used JS inheritance rather
| than its own custom inheritance/mixins.
| gkhartman wrote:
| I'll second this. Highly recommended. It was pleasure to work
| with and hasn't had any issues while running in a production
| environment.
| gennarro wrote:
| This is used on https://55pl.us/find/ if you want to see it live
|
| Example: https://55pl.us/nursing-homes/27a052/
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