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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.
Layers and Overlays
| Plugin | Description | Maintainer |
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| 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 |
| heatmap.js |
JavaScript Library for HTML5 canvas based heatmaps.
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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.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 |
| Wicket | A modest library for translating between Well-Known Text (WKT) and Leaflet geometry objects (e.g. between L.marker() instances and "POINT()" strings). | K. Arthur Endsley |
Geocoding (Address Lookup)
| Plugin | Description | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|
| Leaflet GeoSearch |
Small geocoding plugin that brings address searching/lookup (aka geosearching) to Leaflet. Comes with support for Google, OpenStreetMap Nominatim, Bing, Esri and Nokia. Eeasily extensible. | Stephan Meijer |
| Leaflet Control OSM Geocoder | A simple geocoder that uses OpenstreetMap Nominatim to locate places by address. | Karsten Hinz |
| Leaflet Control Bing Geocoder | A simple geocoder control that uses Bing to locate places. | Samuel Piquet |
Controls and Interaction
| Plugin | Description | Maintainer |
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| 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-search | A control for search Markers/Features location by custom property in LayerGroup/GeoJSON. Support AJAX/JSONP, Autocompletion and 3rd party service | 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 |
| Leaflet.Spin | Shows a nice spinner on the map using Spin.js, for asynchronous data load, like with Leaflet Ajax. | Mathieu Leplatre |
| Leaflet.RestoreView | Stores and restores map view using localStorage. | Mathieu Leplatre |
| Leaflet.FileLayer | Loads files (GeoJSON, GPX, KML) into the map using the HTML5 FileReader API (i.e. locally without server). | Mathieu Leplatre |
| Leaflet.Snap | Enables snapping of draggable markers to polylines and other layers. | Mathieu Leplatre |
| Leaflet Time-Slider | The Leaflet Time-Slider enables you to dynamically add and remove Markers on a map by using a JQuery UI slider | Dennis Wilhelm |
| Leaflet.RevealOSM | Very simple but extendable Leaflet plugin to display OSM POIs data on map click. | Yohan Boniface |
| Leaflet.MousePosition | A simple MousePosition control that displays geographic coordinates of the mouse pointer, as it is moved about the map | Ardhi Lukianto |
| Leaflet.SelectLayers | a Leaflet plugin which adds new control to switch between different layers on the map. New control replaces L.Control.Layers radio button panel with select tag. | vogdb |
| Leaflet.Coordinates | A simple Leaflet plugin viewing the mouse LatLng-coordinates. Also views a marker with coordinate popup on userinput. | Felix Bache |
Other Plugins and Libraries
| Plugin | Description | Maintainer |
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| 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 |
| Leaflet.CSS | Add the main Leaflet CSS files (or any css) from within JavaScript, be gone conditional comments. | Calvin Metcalf |
| Leaflet.LayerIndex | An efficient spatial index for features and layers, using RTree.js. | Mathieu Leplatre |
| Leaflet-pip | Simple point in polygon calculation using point-in-polygon. | Tom MacWright |
| Leaflet.GeometryUtil | A collection of utilities for Leaflet geometries (linear referencing, etc.) | Benjamin Becquet, Mathieu Leplatre |
| Leaflet.i18n | Internationalization for Leaflet plugins. | 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).