What’s leaflet

Definition

The leaflet is an open-source JavaScript library for interactive web maps. The leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usability in mind. It’s lightweight, simple, and flexible, and is probably the most popular open-source mapping library at the moment.

Leaflet works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms, can be extended with lots of plugins, has a beautiful, easy to use and well-documented API and a simple, readable source code that is a joy to contribute to. The leaflet is developed by Vladimir Agafonkin (currently of MapBox) and other contributors.

Interaction Features

The leaflet has many features that we can easily use on our project or research as follow

• Drag panning with inertia
• Scroll wheel zoom
• Pinch-zoom on mobile
• Double click zoom
• Zoom to the area (shift-drag)
• Keyboard navigation
• Events: click, mouseover, etc.
• Marker dragging

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