Leaflet

A Modern, Lightweight Open-Source JavaScript Library for Interactive Maps by CloudMade

Leaflet on Mobile

In this example, you'll learn how to create a fullscreen map tuned for mobile devices like iPhone, iPad or Android phones, and how to easily detect and use the current user location.

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Preparing the page

First we'll take a look at the HTML & CSS code of the page. To make our map div element stretch to all available space (fullscreen), we can use the following CSS code:

body {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
}
html, body, #map {
	height: 100%;
}

Also, we need to tell the mobile browser to disable scaling of the page and set it to its actual size by placing the following line in the head section:

<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />

Initializing the map

We'll now initialize the map in the JavaScript code exactly like we did in the quick start guide, but won't set the map view yet:

var map = new L.Map('map');
	
var cloudmadeUrl = 'http://{s}.tile.cloudmade.com/YOUR-API-KEY/997/256/{z}/{x}/{y}.png',
	cloudmadeAttribution = 'Map data © 2011 OpenStreetMap contributors, Imagery © 2011 CloudMade',
	cloudmade = new L.TileLayer(cloudmadeUrl, {maxZoom: 18, attribution: cloudmadeAttribution});

map.addLayer(cloudmade);

Geolocation

Leaflet has a very handy shortcut for zooming the map view to the detected location — locateAndSetView method, replacing the usual setView method in the code:

map.locateAndSetView(16);

Here we specify 16 as the maximum zoom when setting the map view automatically. Now we have a working fullscreen mobile map! But what if we need to do something after the geolocation completed? Here's what the locationfound and locationerror events are for. Let's for example add a marker in the detected location, showing accuracy in a popup, by adding an event listener to locationfound event before the locateAndSetView call:

map.on('locationfound', onLocationFound);
		
function onLocationFound(e) {
	var radius = e.accuracy / 2;

	var marker = new L.Marker(e.latlng);
	map.addLayer(marker);
	marker.bindPopup("You are within " + radius + " meters from this point").openPopup();
	
	var circle = new L.Circle(e.latlng, radius);
	map.addLayer(circle);	
}

Excellent! But it would also be nice to show an error message if the geolocation failed:

map.on('locationerror', onLocationError);
		
function onLocationError(e) {
	alert(e.message);
}

Now the example is complete — try it on your mobile phone: View the full example →

Next steps would be to take a look at the detailed documentation and browse other examples.