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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Leaflet.ellipse | Leaflet.ellipse place ellipses on map by specifying center point, semi-major axis, semi-minor axis, and tilt degrees from west. | JD Fergason |
| Leaflet.plotter | leaflet-plotter allows you to create routes using a leaflet powered map. You can click on the mid-points to create a new, draggable point. | Nathan Mahdavi |
| 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 |
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| 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 distance measurement controls. | Pavel Shramov, Bruno B |
| 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, Stamen, Esri, etc. | leaflet-extras members |
| 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 |
| Leaflet.dbpediaLayer | A layer with Points of interest from Wikipedia - loaded via ajax from DBpedia's SPARQL endpoint. | Kr1 |
| Leaflet-2gis | Adds support for 2GIS tile layer | Eugene Mikhalev |
| Leaflet.KoreanTmsProviders | Contains configurations for various (South) Korean tile providers — Daum, Naver, VWorld, etc. | Seong Choi |
| Leaflet.ChineseTmsProviders | Contains configurations for various Chinese tile providers — TianDiTu, MapABC, GaoDe, etc. | Tao Huang |
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. Easily 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 |
| Leaflet Control Geocoder | A clean and extensible control that uses Nominatim (OSM) or Bing to locate places. Easy to adapt for other providers. | Per Liedman |
Routing and route search
| Plugin | Description | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|
| Leaflet Routing Machine | Control for route search between waypoints, displaying itinerary and alternative routes. Currently uses OSRM to search routes. | Per Liedman |
| Leaflet.Routing | Leaflet controller and interface for routing paths between waypoints using any user provided routing service. | Norwegian Trekking Association |
Controls and Interaction
| Plugin | Description | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|
| Leaflet.AreaSelect | A fixed positioned, resizable rectangle for selecting an area on the map. | Jonatan Heyman |
| 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.fullscreen | A fullscreen button control by mapbox | mapbox |
| 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-fusesearch | A control that provides a panel to search features in a GeoJSON layer using the lightweight fuzzy search Fuse.js | Antoine Riche |
| 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 |
| Leaflet.Elevation | A Leaflet plugin to view interactive height profiles of GeoJSON lines using d3. | Felix Bache |
| Leaflet.Sync | Synchronized view of two maps. | Bjørn Sandvik |
| Leaflet.GroupedLayerControl | Leaflet layer control with support for grouping overlays together. | Ishmael Smyrnow |
| Leaflet.BorderPan | A Leaflet plugin to pan by clicking on map borders. | Sebastián Lara |
| Leaflet.TileLegend | Create illustrated and interactive legends for your background layers. | Yohan Boniface |
| LeafletPlayback | Play back time-stamped GPS Tracks synchronized to a clock. | Nicholas Hallahan |
| Leaflet.loading | A simple control that adds a loading indicator as tiles and other data are loaded. | Eric Brelsford |
| Leaflet.viewcenter | A simple control that adds a button to change view and zoom to predefinied values in options. | Dariusz Pawlak |
| Leaflet.contextmenu | A context menu for Leaflet. | Adam Ratcliffe |
| Leaflet.MeasureControl | A simple tool to measure distances on maps (*relies on Leaflet.Draw*). | Makina Corpus |
| Leaflet.OverIntent | Adds a new event ``mouseintent``, that differs from ``mouseover`` since it reflects user intentions to aim a particular layer. | Mathieu Leplatre |
| Leaflet.AlmostOver | Trigger mouse events when cursor is "almost" over a layer. | Mathieu Leplatre |
| Leaflet Control Order Layers | Adds the ability to change overlay order in the layers control. | Michael Salgado |
| Leaflet.layerscontrol-minimap | Extends the default Leaflet layers control with synced minimaps. | Jieter |
| leaflet-sidebar | A responsive sidebar plugin. | Tobias Bieniek |
| leaflet-zoom-min | Adds a button to the zoom control that allows you to zoom to the map minimum zoom level in a single click. | Alan Shaw |
| Leaflet.MagnifyingGlass | Allows you to display a small portion of the map at another zoom level, either at a fixed position or linked to the mouse movement, for a magnifying glass effect. | Benjamin Becquet |
| Leaflet.OpacityControls | Simple Leaflet controls to adjust the opacity of a map layer. | Jared Dominguez |
| Leaflet.StyleEditor | Enables editing the styles of features (lines, polygons, etc) and markers with a GUI. | Dennis Wilhelm |
| Leaflet.UniformControl | Leaflet layer control with stylable checkboxes and radio buttons. | Chris Calip |
| Leaflet.SimpleMarkers | A light-weight Leaflet plugin for adding and deleting markers. | Jared Dominguez |
Other Plugins and Libraries
| Plugin | Description | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|
| OSM Buildings | Amazing JS library for visualizing 3D OSM building geometry on top of Leaflet. | Jan Marsch |
| Maps Marker Pro | A WordPress plugin that enables users to pin, organize and share their favorite places and tracks through their WordPress powered site. | 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 |
| Leaflet.print | Implements the Mapfish print protocol allowing a Leaflet map to be printed using either the Mapfish or GeoServer print module. | Adam Ratcliffe |
| Leaflet-active-area | This plugin allows you to use a smaller portion of the map as an active area. All positionning methods (setView, fitBounds, setZoom) will be applied on this portion instead of the all map. | Mappy |
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).