Evaluating Leaflet PolyLine Drawing Plugins

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Evaluating Leaflet PolyLine Drawing Plugins

Criteria

• Small footprint
• Decent code
• Active development
• Touch support
• Drawing a new line
• Editing mid-points of an existing line
• Continuing an existing line
• Removing points
• Removing multiple points from an existing line

Leaflet.draw

• Source: https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.draw
• Demo: http://leaflet.github.io/Leaflet.draw/

Pros

• Official
• Active development (last commit 13 days ago)
• Decent code, tests
• Touch support

Cons

• Can not continue line
• Can not remove multiple poit
• Can only remove points one-by-one

leaflet-editable-polyline

• Source: https://github.com/tkrajina/leaflet-editable-polyline
• Demo: http://tkrajina.github.io/leaflet-editable-polyline/example1.html

Pros

• Claims to be able to handle lines with large amount of points
• Small footprint (600 loc)

Cons

• Last commit more than 1 year ago
• No tests
• No touch support
• Can only add one point at a time to an existing line

Leaflet Plotter

• Source: https://github.com/scripter-co/leaflet-plotter
• Demo: http://scripter-co.github.io/leaflet-plotter/

Pros

• Small footprint (160 loc)

Cons

• No tests
• Last commit more than a year ago
• No touch

Leaflet.Editable

• Source: https://github.com/yohanboniface/Leaflet.Editable
• Demo: http://yohanboniface.github.io/Leaflet.Editable/example/index.html

Pros

• No UI controls
• Last commit 4 days ago
• Documentation (!!)
• Tests
• Touch support

Cons

• Source is a single file (1.2 kloc)
• Continue line did not work