Guest blog post by Mirko Krivanek
Leaflet is a modern open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It is developed by Vladimir Agafonkin with a team of dedicated contributors. Weighing just about 33 KB of JS, it has all the features most developers ever need for online maps.
Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usability in mind. It works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms out of the box, taking advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 on modern browsers while still being accessible on older ones. It can be extended with a huge amount 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.
In this basic example, we create a map with tiles of our choice, add a marker and bind a popup with some text to it:
For an interactive map and source code in text format, click here.
Learn more with the quick start guide, check out other tutorials, or head straight to the API documentation.
If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ first.
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