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Leaflet is an amazingly powerful tool. As others have mentioned, it makes it easy to use a variety of sources for the underlying map tiles; in my case I was abl

Leaflet is an amazingly powerful tool. As others have mentioned, it makes it easy to use a variety of sources for the underlying map tiles; in my case I was able to replace the modern-day base map with a map of the Roman Empire for an interactive academic publication[1]. Another great feature that doesn't get as much attention is Leaflet's ability to handle non-geographic images. In the same publication I'm also using it as a general-purpose deep zoom viewer for displaying artifacts[2]. It's great to just use a single library to handle all of this. Kudos to the Leaflet developers for continuing to improve such a great library! [1]: http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/catalogue/italy/ http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/catalogue/ita... [2]: http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/catalogue/1/ http://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/catalogue/1/

kjell 10y ago
Museum tech roll call! I picked up leaflet for the same purpose and it's worked great - http://collections.artsmia.org/art/1218/olive-trees-vincent-van-gogh http://collections.artsmia.org/art/1218/olive-trees-vincent-... The Rijksmuseum "Rijksstudio" site has been around for a few years and adopted leaflet very early on for image viewing: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/rembrandt-harmensz-van-rijn https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/rembrandt-... Perhaps of interest to this sub-thread is "IIIF" (the international image interoperability framework), an attempt to standardize access to images (and collections of images) with a JSON(-LD) metadata model: http://iiif.io/ http://iiif.io/
- vmorgulis 10y ago
  Very impressive achievement! Even compare to Google Institute: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/olive-trees/rwGVxwlpIhHn6g?hl=en https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/olive-tr...
- katabasis 10y ago
  Nice project! RE: IIIF, we're interested in going in that direction as well. Fortunately it looks like someone already wrote a plugin for it: https://github.com/mejackreed/Leaflet-IIIF https://github.com/mejackreed/Leaflet-IIIF PS - Hey Kjell! This is Eric from the Getty. It's nice to see there are other museum folks on HN!
  - kjell 10y ago
    Yep - I figured based on the projects, but didn't want to call out your real ID in case that mattered. Lunch out on your plaza sounds pretty appealing right now compared to the weather up here!
pducks32 10y ago
That's awesome as an art history guy I never considered using leaflet for zooming like this. Ingenious keep up the fantastic work!
guomanmin 10y ago
Participate in Atlassian Research My name is Angela and I do research for Bitbucket. I’m kicking off a round of discussions with people who use Git tools. Ideally, I’d like to talk to people that sit on a team of 3 or more. If this is you, I would love to talk to you about your experience with <using> Git tools, or just some of the pain points that are keeping you up at night when doing your jobs.    We’ll just need 30 mins of your time, and as a token of my thanks to those that participate, I’d like to offer a US$50 Amazon gift voucher.    If you’re interested, just shoot me an email with your availability over the next few weeks and we can set up a time to chat for 30 minutes. Please also include your timezone so we can schedule a suitable time (as I’m located in San Francisco). Hope to talk to you soon! Cheers,   Angela Guo aguo@atlassian.com

kjell 10y ago

Museum tech roll call! I picked up leaflet for the same purpose and it's worked great - http://collections.artsmia.org/art/1218/olive-trees-vincent-van-gogh http://collections.artsmia.org/art/1218/olive-trees-vincent-... The Rijksmuseum "Rijksstudio" site has been around for a few years and adopted leaflet very early on for image viewing: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/rembrandt-harmensz-van-rijn https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/rembrandt-... Perhaps of interest to this sub-thread is "IIIF" (the international image interoperability framework), an attempt to standardize access to images (and collections of images) with a JSON(-LD) metadata model: http://iiif.io/ http://iiif.io/

vmorgulis 10y ago
Very impressive achievement! Even compare to Google Institute: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/olive-trees/rwGVxwlpIhHn6g?hl=en https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/olive-tr...
katabasis 10y ago
Nice project! RE: IIIF, we're interested in going in that direction as well. Fortunately it looks like someone already wrote a plugin for it: https://github.com/mejackreed/Leaflet-IIIF https://github.com/mejackreed/Leaflet-IIIF PS - Hey Kjell! This is Eric from the Getty. It's nice to see there are other museum folks on HN!
- kjell 10y ago
  Yep - I figured based on the projects, but didn't want to call out your real ID in case that mattered. Lunch out on your plaza sounds pretty appealing right now compared to the weather up here!

pducks32 10y ago

That's awesome as an art history guy I never considered using leaflet for zooming like this. Ingenious keep up the fantastic work!

guomanmin 10y ago

Participate in Atlassian Research My name is Angela and I do research for Bitbucket. I’m kicking off a round of discussions with people who use Git tools. Ideally, I’d like to talk to people that sit on a team of 3 or more. If this is you, I would love to talk to you about your experience with <using> Git tools, or just some of the pain points that are keeping you up at night when doing your jobs.    We’ll just need 30 mins of your time, and as a token of my thanks to those that participate, I’d like to offer a US$50 Amazon gift voucher.    If you’re interested, just shoot me an email with your availability over the next few weeks and we can set up a time to chat for 30 minutes. Please also include your timezone so we can schedule a suitable time (as I’m located in San Francisco). Hope to talk to you soon! Cheers,   Angela Guo aguo@atlassian.com