Leaflet – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps

Great news, Leaflet is the standard for open source web maps. This release looks to have a lot of nice quality of life improvements.<p>I&#x27;ve been a little worried about Leaflet&#x27;s future vs. Mapbox GL JS. That&#x27;s also an excellent open source map library, but is based entirely on new technology (vector maps and GL) and favors using Mapbox&#x27;s paid services. I think Leaflet has a long life ahead for folks who want something simpler, something that can easily composite raster data from many sources.

Someone made a nice wrapper for react I&#x27;ve been using with good success.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PaulLeCam&#x2F;react-leaflet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PaulLeCam&#x2F;react-leaflet</a>

Folium is a nice python wrapper for Leaflet: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;python-visualization&#x2F;folium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;python-visualization&#x2F;folium</a>

I was curious why Leaflet, which has been around a while, popped up today. Looks like it&#x27;s because 1.3.0 is out, but as far as I can tell it&#x27;s a bugfix release. The most exciting new feature (to me, at least) is iterating over layers in a LayerGroup with eachLayer, which is neat but hardly groundbreaking.<p>Am I missing something? I love Leaflet, but I thought it was already one of the standards for maps on the web.

One of the most efficient, snappy, and lightweight frameworks for 2D maps with overlays and simple vector drawing capabilities. Clear and simple API. Keep doing great job!

Really great library, I had to use Bing Maps v8 API and it was not the best mapping library, the documentation is not very impressive, and it&#x27;s just not as feature heavy as I&#x27;d hoped and the features get confusing really quickly.<p>We wound up using Leaflet to handle everything else but the imagery is all from Bing Maps instead. I&#x27;ve run into edge cases I&#x27;ve had to figure out with Leaflet, but at least the JS ecosystem is big enough to where you can always find generic solutions that work with the existing mapping library.

Is <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlayers.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;openlayers.org&#x2F;</a> the jQuery of web mapping now ?

We recently launched a project that relies heavily on leaflet for generating custom, interactive maps from CMS data and once we got the hang of it it was such a breeze to work with. Really enjoyed it and got the wheels spinning on other pet projects that could utilize it.

Fun fact: LibreOffice Online uses Leaflet for tile rendering.

When I was still in school I used Leaflet for a product and I remember being really impressed by it then. This must have been around 2013. I scripted huge AutoCAD exports with AutoLISP and sliced them up with ImageMagick to make custom zoomable maps of schools and hospitals. They would be annotated with BIM data and used for utility inspections. I&#x27;m glad to see it&#x27;s still alive and kicking!

Leaflet has been a pleasure to work with. I recently used it to build animated wildfire maps, such as this one of the Thomas Fire in California. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firetracker.scpr.org&#x2F;thomas-fire-santa-barbara-2017" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;firetracker.scpr.org&#x2F;thomas-fire-santa-barbara-2017</a>

One more vote for Leaflet. Just started using it for one of my side projects (my long term get rich plan) and it’s super easy to create custom maps exactly how you want them. There are also many plugins allowing you to further enhance the functionality. Now, if only I could find some extra spare time to work on it...

great library. been using it in some GIS projects I am involved in. glad to see development continues.

I love Leaflet. We are currently using it for some applications at my work. It&#x27;s super simple and easy to extend