10 Top Interactive Map JavaScript Libraries 2022 - July 8, 2022 at 09:55PM

Adding an interactive map to your web application can be an incredibly useful tool. When it comes to maps it has to be simple and comprehensive. Adding maps to a website is not very hard but making them interactive, lightweight and mobile-friendly is kinda difficult. So here are some Javascript libraries that come to the rescue.

Jsvectormap

A lightweight JavaScript library for creating interactive maps and pretty data visualization.

Leaflet

Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Weighing just about 42 KB of JS, it has all the mapping features most developers ever need. Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usability in mind. It works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms, can be extended with lots of plugins, has a beautiful, easy to use and well-documented API and a simple, readable source code that is a joy to contribute to.

Mapbox Gl Js

Mapbox GL JS is a JavaScript library for interactive, customizable vector maps on the web. It takes map styles that conform to the Mapbox Style Specification, applies them to vector tiles that conform to the Mapbox Vector Tile Specification, and renders them using WebGL.

Datamaps

Datamaps is intended to provide some data visualizations based on geographical data. It’s SVG-based, can scale to any screen size, and includes everything inside of 1 script file. It heavily relies on the amazing D3.js library.

Openlayers

OpenLayers is a high-performance, feature-packed library for creating interactive maps on the web. It can display map tiles, vector data and markers loaded from any source on any web page.

Polymaps

Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers.

Fantasy Map Generator

Web application generating interactive and highly customizable maps.

RMaps

rMaps makes it easy to create, customize and share interactive maps from R, with a few lines of code. It supports several javascript based mapping libraries like Leaflet, DataMaps and Crosslet, with many more to be added.