Leaflet VS OpenLayers

Leaflet Reviews

OpenLayers Reviews

Leaflet mentions (123)

• Animated traveling map with Leaflet

  Leaflet is the most famous open-source map library, with lots of plugins. 2 of them are used to animate a marker on the map:. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• 5 JavaScript mapping APIs compared

  Leaflet stands out as one of the top open source JavaScript libraries for crafting interactive maps. Optimized for both mobile and web devices, it is relatively small (around 42KB) and offers a ton of features, plugins, and a straightforward API. It works across all browsers and platforms. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• 🌲Svelte + 🍃Leaflet + 📍 Clusters

  For a personal project, I had to use Leaflet with Svelte, and I faced some problems during development. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Embed leaflet JS maps in notion?

  Do anyone have any workaround on how to get leaflet js to work inside notion, either as an embed or as code, or widget? Https://leafletjs.com/. Source: 8 months ago

• Ask HN: When building with complex maps do you go with GMaps, Mapbox, OSM?

  None of those things are what most in the GIS space would consider "complex", so you could go with any of the options you selected. For lightweight maps, I like Leaflet https://leafletjs.com. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

OpenLayers mentions (28)

• Zooming User Interface (ZUI)

  You probably know this, but in Google Maps at least, you can use browser zoom (ctrl/cmd +/-) to change the size of labels without zooming into the actual map. ------ Speaking of maps, I got to work a fun zoom project a few years ago: https://map.fieldmuseum.org/ We used https://openlayers.org/ and thought long and hard about how to best handle zooming and variable levels of information density & visual hierarchy.... - Source: Hacker News / 15 days ago

• Handling files in enterprise web solutions

  In order to display the GeoJSON features on a map, we will use OpenLayers, which is a very powerful open-source mapping library that is also very simple to use. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• 5 JavaScript mapping APIs compared

  OpenLayers is a modular, high-performance library designed for displaying and interacting with maps and geospatial data. It is a free, open-source JS library released under the 2-Clause BSD License, facilitating the creation of interactive and feature-rich web maps. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• I'm a senior in my CS major and it's incredible I didn't hear about GIS projects until now. Glad to be here.

  For web maps I'd strongly recommend using OpenLayers. While it's less convenient to get started with compared to the alternatives it's also much more feature-complete and you'll likely hit a ceiling in terms of functionality much later than you would with the others. Source: 12 months ago

• Show HN: Test, fix, and improve your ML models

  Tought this was about https://openlayers.org/, got confused for a moment. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago