![]() Leaflet has an extremely large user base and is still very popular, which is an impressive feat considering that its core hasn’t received significant changes in years. The core is still maintained though not by the original author. The library is essentially mature and mainly lives through its plugin ecosystem. You can find the list here, it usually makes your life easier to display specific kinds of data, premade styles for dataviz purposes, geometries edition etc. The system is built upon plugins integration, then many community extensions have shown up to expand upon the base features of the library. Leaflet is based on WebMercator projection and does not provide an easy way to change the projection. Also, it is harder to interact with OGC standards, and to use custom projections. The drawback of this approach is that the library does not provide the full palette of geospatial features, if you want to build more advanced user interfaces, you will have to rely on plugins very quickly. It provides a simple API, everything is made so it is easy to embed geospatial information in a website: if you want to display a map with tiled background layers (OSM, satellite), plus some custom vector data (geojson) on top of it, you’ll find the experience great and straightforward by using Leaflet, and the result will clearly respond to your need.Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode It’s a lightweight library that focuses on displaying fast maps on the web. Note that the article reflects my own knowledge, experience and opinion about what each library covers and provides, I am objective but humble enough to admit I don't carry the universal truth.Īs a good map worth more than a long speech, let’s discover them.Ĭreated in 2010 by Vladimir Agafonkin, Leaflet has been the first library to take advantage of new HTML 5 features, like the Canvas rendering, offering modernity and great performance. I’m going to introduce you to the 3 best open source alternatives, they are free to use and you’ll see it is not that hard to implement your own mapping application. You probably want to make your data a bit more explicit through maps, and you don't feel comfortable being captive in the Google Map API ecosystem: welcome to the open source world. You consult maps to see elector distribution, covid expansion, people migration, land use, disaster impact and for many other reasons. ![]() Or might they buy something like they did with the convention centre site, though there's not too many suitable sites on that score either.Maps are everywhere nowadays, most of the people are using for instance Google Maps on a daily basis to find a place or follow a route. I also wonder what site they have in mind, there's not too many council-owned sites that I can think of that would be suitable perhaps the Michael Fowler carpark or the Illot Green. In saying that I can only wish them good will. Will ratepayers fund the building and then lease it to the museum as was originally planned? And if so how will the new mayor's relationship with Jackson be gotten around considering it might start smelling a bit fishy? Will Jackson be given more control of the design of the building that he isn't paying for (as it was his lack of control with the other proposal that led to its demise)? And if so, what will the building look like - Hobbiton-on-sea? ![]() ![]() Obviously the new mayor's relationship with Peter Jackson has made this possible, and it'd be a great thing if it happened, however, I wonder how it'll work without it looking like there's a huge conflict of interest. Wellington movie museum back on the cards: ![]()
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