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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.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.AnimatedMarker | Animate a marker along a polyline. | Aaron Ogle |
| Leaflet-semicircle |
Adds functionality to L.Circleto draw semicircles. | Jieter |
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 Ajax | Add GeoJSON data via ajax or jsonp. | Calvin Metcalf |
| 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 |
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-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 |
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 |