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<h1>Leaflet</h1>
<h3 class="alt">A Modern, Lightweight Open-Source JavaScript Library for Interactive Maps by <a href="http://cloudmade.com">CloudMade</a></h3>
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<li><a href="index.html">Overview</a></li>
<li><span>Features</span></li>
<li><a href="examples.html">Examples</a></li>
<li><a href="reference.html">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="download.html">Download</a></li>
<li><a class="twitter-link" href="http://twitter.com/LeafletJS">@LeafletJS</a></li>
<li><a class="github-link" href="http://github.com/CloudMade/Leaflet">GitHub Repo</a></li>
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<h3>Leaflet features</h3>
<p>Leaflet doesn't try to do everything for everyone. Instead it focuses on making <em>the basic things work perfectly</em>. It should still satisfy the needs of the vast majority of map apps developers while being flexible enough to be easily extended by writing third-party plugins.</p>
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<h3>Available map layers</h3>
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<li>Tile layers</li>
<li>Polylines, polygons, circles</li>
<li>Markers</li>
<li>Popups</li>
<li>Image overlays</li>
<li>WMS layers</li>
<li>GeoJSON</li>
<li class="noimpl">KML</li>
<li class="noimpl">GeoRSS</li>
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<h3>Interaction features</h3>
<h4>On desktop browsers</h4>
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<li>Drag panning</li>
<li>Scroll wheel zoom</li>
<li>Double click zoom</li>
<li>Shift-drag zoom to bounding box</li>
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<h4>On mobile browsers (iOS, Android)</h4>
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<li>Touch-drag panning</li>
<li>Multi-touch zoom (iOS only)</li>
<li>Double tap zoom</li>
<li class="noimpl">Panning inertia</li>
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<h3>Visual features</h3>
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<li>Panning animation</li>
<li>Zooming animation on modern browsers <span class="quiet">(except IE)</span></li>
<li>Smooth continuous zoom on iOS</li>
<li>Tile and popup fade animation</li>
<li>Very nice default design for markers and popups</li>
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<h3>Customization features</h3>
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<li>Pure CSS3 popups and controls <span class="quiet">for easy restyling</span></li>
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<li><span class="quiet">A simple interface for implementing</span> custom map layers</li>
<li><span class="quiet">The same for</span> custom map controls</li>
<li>Custom map projections <span class="quiet">(with <code>EPSG:4326</code>, <code>EPSG:3857</code> and <code>EPSG:3395</code> out of the box)</span></li>
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<h3>Performance features</h3>
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<li>Hardware acceleration on iOS <span class="quiet">makes it feel as smooth as native apps</span></li>
<li><span class="quiet">Clever tricks to make</span> panning and zooming really smooth</li>
<li>Smart polyline/polygon rendering <span class="quiet">makes it responsive even when displaying objects with thousands of points</span></li>
<li>Modular build system <span class="quiet">allows you to reduce the size of the library by leaving out the code you don't need</span></li>
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<h3>Map controls</h3>
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<li>Zoom buttons</li>
<li>Attribution</li>
<li class="noimpl">Zoom slider</li>
<li>Layer switcher</li>
<!-- <li>Scale</li> -->
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<h3>Browser support</h3>
<h4>On desktop</h4>
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<li>Firefox 3.6+</li>
<li>Chrome</li>
<li>Safari 5+</li>
<li>Opera 11.11+</li>
<li>IE 7&ndash;9</li>
<li>IE 6 <span class="quiet">(not perfect but accessible)</span></li>
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<h4>On mobile</h4>
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<li>Safari for iOS 3/4+</li>
<li>WebKit for Android 2.2+</li>
<li class="noimpl">webOS browser</li>
<li class="noimpl">Blackberry 6+</li>
<li class="noimpl">Windows Phone 7</li>
<li class="noimpl">Firefox for Android</li>
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<p>If you find some feature really missing in Leaflet, please submit it to the <a href="https://github.com/CloudMade/Leaflet/issues">issue tracker</a>.</p>
<p class="noimpl">* Grayed out features are in the roadmap and coming soon.</p>
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<p class="quiet">&copy; 2011 <a href="http://cloudmade.com">CloudMade</a>. Map data &copy; 2011 <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC-BY-SA</a>.</p>
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