About Leaflet / / Comments Off on About Leaflet An Open-Source JavaScript Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps The Leaflet JS library is a lightweight yet robust library for interactive maps and is designed with simplicity, performance, and usability in mind. Leaflet is the industry standard for interactive maps. It was developed by Vladimir Agafonkin and a team of dedicated contributors. Leaflet has all the features most developers ever need for online maps. Leaflet can be extended with a very large number of plugins. Leaflet.org is not associated with the Leaflet JS library. We are simply fans. Leaflet began life in 2010 as Web Maps API, a JavaScript library for the CloudMade mapping provider. It was built from scratch but used parts... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: CloudMade, interactive maps, MapBox, online maps, OpenStreetMap