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Leaflet is a great library, I never would've guessed that they hadn't reached 1.0 given the completeness (for my use case anyway) of the library, quality of doc

Leaflet is a great library, I never would've guessed that they hadn't reached 1.0 given the completeness (for my use case anyway) of the library, quality of documentation and it's ubiquity. It might not be build on the latest reactive, functional style but I think it's one of most useful javascript libraries I've used.

bambax 10y ago
I had the same experience and reaction. Leaflet is so nice and clean, it's a constant pleasure to use. I miss coding maps... ;-) Are there ideas somewhere of things to do...?
- reitoei 10y ago
  Clown locator. Please.
- frikk 10y ago
  You could go to the census fact finder, grab some data (scoped at census block level) and a few census block shapefiles for your state, and get to work. Repeat for counties, cities, etc. Census data is seriously cool, and easy to work with. [0] http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml [1] https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php
  - rch 10y ago
    Are you familiar with PolicyMap? https://www.policymap.com/ https://www.policymap.com/
    - frikk 10y ago
      I haven't heard of them. Looks pretty cool, thanks for sharing.
- didip 10y ago
  US election is going to be hot topic soon. Surely you could do some novel visualizations using maps.
- rch 10y ago
  I've been working a bit with open data associated with congressional districts, and I'd like to do a visualization of boundary changes over time. There may be some interesting data features associated with places that have been subject to frequent redistricting. https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/CD/
cel1ne 10y ago
I love Leaflet (and contributed quite a bit over the years). The layer architecture can be easily combined with React. Just write react-components for the layers, shapes, or markers and use React's lifecycle-hooks to add/remove them from the map. https://gist.github.com/fab1an/f040edbd939989d3a2557f15d2b9ee02 https://gist.github.com/fab1an/f040edbd939989d3a2557f15d2b9e...
- chickenfries 10y ago
  Thanks for the contributions and for the example! I'm just getting started with React and its useful to see examples with integrating non-react JavaScript libraries like leaflet.
- killahpriest 10y ago
  https://github.com/PaulLeCam/react-leaflet https://github.com/PaulLeCam/react-leaflet
  - vbs_redlof 10y ago
    Why was this downvoted? Is there something wrong with this approach?
sotojuan 10y ago
FWIW a recent RxJS book uses leaflet in an example.
ultrasandwich 10y ago
I've used Leaflet on not-insignificant-sized projects and had nothing but a great experience. Great docs and really stable!
- shriek 10y ago
  Although their docs are great some examples on the documented stuff would really be nice. I struggled a bit on some but other than that the simplicity of it is really great. Would definitely recommend for someone who's starting out on maps.
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    Agreed - working out how to build Leaflet controls was really tricky, and I still didn't advance much past buttons and popups.

bambax 10y ago

I had the same experience and reaction. Leaflet is so nice and clean, it's a constant pleasure to use. I miss coding maps... ;-) Are there ideas somewhere of things to do...?

reitoei 10y ago
Clown locator. Please.
frikk 10y ago
You could go to the census fact finder, grab some data (scoped at census block level) and a few census block shapefiles for your state, and get to work. Repeat for counties, cities, etc. Census data is seriously cool, and easy to work with. [0] http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml [1] https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php
- rch 10y ago
  Are you familiar with PolicyMap? https://www.policymap.com/ https://www.policymap.com/
  - frikk 10y ago
    I haven't heard of them. Looks pretty cool, thanks for sharing.
didip 10y ago
US election is going to be hot topic soon. Surely you could do some novel visualizations using maps.
rch 10y ago
I've been working a bit with open data associated with congressional districts, and I'd like to do a visualization of boundary changes over time. There may be some interesting data features associated with places that have been subject to frequent redistricting. https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/CD/

cel1ne 10y ago

I love Leaflet (and contributed quite a bit over the years). The layer architecture can be easily combined with React. Just write react-components for the layers, shapes, or markers and use React's lifecycle-hooks to add/remove them from the map. https://gist.github.com/fab1an/f040edbd939989d3a2557f15d2b9ee02 https://gist.github.com/fab1an/f040edbd939989d3a2557f15d2b9e...

chickenfries 10y ago
Thanks for the contributions and for the example! I'm just getting started with React and its useful to see examples with integrating non-react JavaScript libraries like leaflet.
killahpriest 10y ago
https://github.com/PaulLeCam/react-leaflet https://github.com/PaulLeCam/react-leaflet
- vbs_redlof 10y ago
  Why was this downvoted? Is there something wrong with this approach?

sotojuan 10y ago

FWIW a recent RxJS book uses leaflet in an example.

ultrasandwich 10y ago

I've used Leaflet on not-insignificant-sized projects and had nothing but a great experience. Great docs and really stable!

shriek 10y ago
Although their docs are great some examples on the documented stuff would really be nice. I struggled a bit on some but other than that the simplicity of it is really great. Would definitely recommend for someone who's starting out on maps.
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  Agreed - working out how to build Leaflet controls was really tricky, and I still didn't advance much past buttons and popups.