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<p>Leaflet is a modern, lightweight open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps for desktop and mobile web browsers, developed by <ahref="http://cloudmade.com">CloudMade</a> to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API. Weighting just about 21kb of gzipped JS code, it still has all the <ahref="features.html">features</a> you will ever need for you web mapping needs while providing a fast, smooth, pleasant user experience.</p>
<p>It is built from the ground up to work efficiently and smoothly on both desktop and mobile platforms like iOS and Android, utilizing cutting-edge technologies included in HTML5 and CSS3, focusing on usability, performance, small size, <ahref="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/">A-grade</a> browser support, flexibility and <ahref="reference.html"title="Leaflet API reference">easy to use API</a>. The OOP-based <ahref="https://github.com/CloudMade/Leaflet"title="Leaflet GitHub repository">code of the library</a> is designed to be modular, extensible and very easy to understand.</p>
// create a CloudMade tile layer (or use other provider of your choice)
var cloudmade = new L.TileLayer('http://{s}.tile.cloudmade.com/<spanclass="text-cut"data-cut="[your-API-key]">YOUR-API-KEY</span>/997/256/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
<p>The project is <ahref="http://github.com/CloudMade/Leaflet">hosted on GitHub</a>, waiting for your contributions — just send your pull requests to <ahref="http://github.com/mourner">Vladimir Agafonkin</a> (Leaflet maintainer). Let's make the best library for maps that can possibly exist! </p>
<p>You can also help the project a lot by reporting bugs and discussing features on the <ahref="http://github.com/CloudMade/Leaflet/issues">issues page</a>, tweeting to <ahref="http://twitter.com/LeafletJS">@LeafletJS</a> or joining the <ahref="https://groups.google.com/group/leaflet-js">Leaflet mailing list</a>.
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