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Leaflet.js Essentials
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Leaflet.js Essentials

by Paul Crickard III
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
180 pages
3h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Mobile mapping

The maps you have made so far have been tested on the desktop. One of the benefits of mapping in JavaScript is that mobile devices can run the code in a standard web browser without any external applications or plugins. Leaflet runs on mobile devices, such as iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Any web page with a Leaflet map will work on a mobile device without any changes; however, you probably want to customize the map for mobile devices so that it works and looks like it was built specifically for mobile.

Lastly, the L.map() class has a locate() method, which uses the W3C Geolocation API. The Geolocation API allows you to find and track a user's location using the IP address, the wireless network information, or the GPS on a device. ...

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