Leaflet/plugins.md

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Notable Leaflet Plugins

While Leaflet is meant to be as lightweight as possible, and focuses on a core set of features, an easy way to extend its functionality is to use third-party plugins. Thanks to the awesome community behind Leaflet, there are lots of nice plugins to choose from.

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Layers and Overlays

Plugin	Description	Maintainer
Leaflet.markercluster	Beautiful, sophisticated, high performance marker clustering solution with smooth animations and lots of great features. Recommended!	Dave Leaver
Leaflet.label	Adds text labels to map markers and vector layers.	Jacob Toye
RaphaelLayer	Allows you to use Raphael as a layer on a Leaflet map for advanced animations and visualizations.	Dynamic Methods
Overlapping Marker Spiderfier	Deals with overlapping markers in a Google Earth-inspired way by gracefully springing them apart on click.	George MacKerron
TileLayer.BoundaryCanvas	Allows you to draw tile layers with arbitrary polygonal boundary. HTML5 Canvas is used for rendering.	Alexander Parshin
MaskCanvas	Canvas layer that can be used to visualize coverage.	Dominik Moritz
HeatCanvas	Simple heatmap api based on HTML5 canvas.	Sun Ning
Leaflet.MultiTileLayer	Allows to compose a TileLayer from several tile sources. Each source is active only on a defined set of zoomlevels.	Mattias Bengtsson
Leaflet.AnimatedMarker	Animate a marker along a polyline.	Aaron Ogle
Leaflet-semicircle	Adds functionality to L.Circle to draw semicircles.	Jieter
Leaflet.FunctionalTileLayer	Allows you to define tile layer URLs using a function, with support for jQuery deferreds.	Ishmael Smyrnow
Leaflet.geoCSV	Leaflet plugin for loading a CSV file as geoJSON layer.	Iván Eixarch
Leaflet.PolylineDecorator	Allows you to draw patterns (like dashes, arrows or evenly spaced Markers) along Polylines or coordinate paths.	Benjamin Becquet

Services, Providers and Formats

Plugin	Description	Maintainer
Proj4Leaflet	Proj4js integration plugin, allowing you to use all kinds of weird projections in Leaflet.	Kartena
Plugins by Pavel Shramov	A set of plugins for: GPX, KML layers; Bing tile layer; Google and Yandex layers (implemented with their APIs), Permalink and alternative Scale controls.	Pavel Shramov
cartodb-leaflet	Official CartoDB plugin for Leaflet.	Vizzuality
Leaflet Vector Layers	Allows to easily create vector layers from a number of geo web services, such as ArcGIS Server, Arc2Earth, GeoIQ, CartoDB and GIS Cloud.	Jason Sanford
leaflet-tilejson	Adds support for the TileJSON specification to Leaflet.	Per Liedman, Kartena
leaflet-providers	Contains configurations for various free tile providers — OSM, OpenCycleMap, MapQuest, Mapbox Streets, Stamen, Esri, etc.	Stefan Seelmann
azgs-leaflet	A set of small plugins for Leaflet, including WFS-GeoJSON layer with filtering, a hover control for GeoJSON, and an Esri tile layer.	AZGS
Leaflet Control Bing Geocoder	A simple geocoder control that uses Bing to locate places.	Samuel Piquet
Leaflet.encoded	Use encoded polylines in Leaflet.	Jieter
Leaflet.Pouch	Use PouchDB to sync CouchDB data to local storage (indexedDB), to just add couchDB data or as just a less confusing implementation of indexedDB.	Calvin Metcalf
Leaflet Ajax	Add GeoJSON data via ajax or jsonp.	Calvin Metcalf
Leaflet GPX	GPX layer, targeted at sporting activities by providing access to information such as distance, moving time, pace, elevation, heart rate, etc.	Maxime Petazzoni

Controls and Interaction

Plugin	Description	Maintainer
Leaflet.draw	Enables drawing features like polylines, polygons, rectangles, circles and markers through a very nice user-friendly interface with icons and hints. Recommended!	Jacob Toye
Leaflet.utfgrid	Provides a utfgrid interaction handler for leaflet a very small footprint.	Dave Leaver
Leaflet.EditableHandlers	A set of plugins that includes circle editing, measuring tool, and label for polygon sides.	Kartena
Leaflet.Pancontrol	A simple panning control.	Kartena
Leaflet.zoomslider	A zoom slider control.	Kartena
Leaflet.Locate	A customizable locate control.	Dominik Moritz
leaflet.zoomfs	A fullscreen button control.	Eli Dupuis
leaflet.fullscreen	Another fullscreen button control but for modern browsers, using HTML5 Fullscreen API.	Bruno B
Leaflet GeoSearch	Small plugin that brings address searching/lookup (aka geosearching) to Leaflet. Comes with support for Google, Bing, Esri and Openlayers. (easy extendible)	Stephan Meijer
leaflet-search	Simple Leaflet Control for searching markers by attribute.	Stefano Cudini
leaflet-locationfilter	A draggable/resizable rectangle for selecting an area on the map.	Robert Kajic
Leaflet.MiniMap	A small minimap showing the map at a different scale to aid navigation.	Robert Nordan
Leaflet.Rrose	A Leaflet Plugin for Edge Cases. For use when you want popups on mouseover, not click, and you need popup tips to reorient as you get close to the edges of your map.	Eric Theise
Leaflet.EditInOSM	Add a control with links to open the current map view on main OSM editors.	Yohan Boniface

Other Plugins and Libraries

Plugin	Description	Maintainer
OSM Buildings	Amazing JS library for visualizing 3D OSM building data on top of Leaflet.	Jan Marsch
Leaflet Maps Marker	A Wordpress plugin that uses Leaflet and a set of its plugins for adding maps to your posts through a nice admin interface.	Robert Harm
leaflet-hash	Plugin for persisting map state and browsing history through the URL hash.	Michael Lawrence Evans
arc.js	A JS library for drawing great circle routes that can be used with Leaflet.	Dane Springmeyer
Leaflet.Storage	Create/update/delete Map, Marker, Polygon, Polyline... and expose them for backend storage with an API.	Yohan Boniface

To submit your own Leaflet plugin to this list, just send a pull request with the addition to Leaflet repo's gh-pages branch (plugins.md file).