Use in templates

Use Leaflet API

You can use the Leaflet API as usual. There are two ways to grab a reference on the just initialized map and options.

Using Javascript callback function

The easy way :

<script>
    function map_init_basic (map, options) {
        ...
        L.marker([50.5, 30.5]).addTo(map);
        ...
    }
</script>

{% leaflet_map "yourmap" callback="window.map_init_basic" %}

Using events

If you don’t want to expose global callbacks :

<script>
    window.addEventListener("map:init", function (e) {
        var detail = e.detail;
        ...
        L.marker([50.5, 30.5]).addTo(detail.map);
        ...
    }, false);
</script>

Event object has two properties : map and options (initialization).

For Internet Explorer support, we fallback on jQuery if available

$(window).on('map:init', function (e) {
    var detail = e.originalEvent ?
                 e.originalEvent.detail : e.detail;
    ...
    L.marker([50.5, 30.5]).addTo(detail.map);
    ...
});

Customize map size

CSS is your friend:

<style>

    .leaflet-container {  /* all maps */
        width:  600px;
        height: 400px;
    }

    #specialbigmap {
        height: 800px;
    }

    /* Resize the "display_raw" textbox */
    .django-leaflet-raw-textarea {
        width: 100%;
    }

</style>

Configuration

In order to configure django-leaflet, just add a new section in your settings:

LEAFLET_CONFIG = {
    # conf here
}

And add some of the following entries.

Spatial extent

You can configure a global spatial extent for your maps, that will automatically center your maps, restrict panning and add reset view and scale controls. (See advanced usage to tweak that.):

'SPATIAL_EXTENT': (5.0, 44.0, 7.5, 46)

Initial map center and zoom level

In addition to limiting your maps with SPATIAL_EXTENT, you can also specify initial map center, default, min and max zoom level, coordinate values precision:

'DEFAULT_CENTER': (6.0, 45.0),
'DEFAULT_ZOOM': 16,
'MIN_ZOOM': 3,
'MAX_ZOOM': 18,
'DEFAULT_PRECISION': 6,

The tuple/list must contain (lat,lng) coords.

Notice that if you do not use SPATIAL_EXTENT, but you do specify a value for the DEFAULT_ZOOM entry, you must also indicate a DEFAULT_CENTER, or you will get an empty, not working pane, for all new database records without a default geometry value. This is regarded as an error in the configuration, not a bug in the software.

Default tiles layer

To globally add a tiles layer to your maps:

'TILES': 'http://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png'

This setting can also be a list of tuples (name, url, options). The python dict options accepts all the Leaflet tileLayers options.

If it contains several layers, a layer switcher will then be added automatically.

'TILES': [('Satellite', 'http://server/a/...', {'attribution': '&copy; Big eye', 'maxZoom': 16}),
          ('Streets', 'http://server/b/...', {'attribution': '&copy; Contributors'})]

If you omit this setting, a default OpenSTreetMap layer will be created for your convenience. If you do not want a default layers (perhaps to add them in your own JavaScript code on map initialization), set the value to an empty list, as shown below.

'TILES': []

Note that this will also prevent any overlays defined in settings from being displayed.

Overlay layers

To globally add an overlay layer, use the same syntax as tiles:

'OVERLAYS': [('Cadastral', 'http://server/a/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {'attribution': '&copy; IGN'})]

Currently, overlay layers from settings are limited to tiles. For vectorial overlays, you will have to add them via JavaScript (see also events).

To add layers other than the tiles supported by the global config, e.g. WMS layers, insert a script block, get a reference to the map’s layerscontrol, and add any layer supported by Leaflet as overlays to that layerscontrol object.

In a template:

{% block content %}
{% leaflet_map "detailmap" callback="window.map_init" %}
{% endblock %}


{% block javascript %}
{{ block.super }}
<script>
function map_init(map, options) {
    {% include 'shared/overlays.html' %}
}
</script>
{% endblock %}

In a snippet, here called shared/overlays.html, the overlays are configured. Doing so in a snippet allows the same set of overlays to be re-used across other maps in your Django project.

shared/overlays.html:

var lc = map.layerscontrol;

// An example from the Atlas of Living Australia https://www.ala.org.au/
lc.addOverlay(
    L.tileLayer.wms(
    'https://spatial-beta.ala.org.au/geoserver/ALA/wms',
    {layers: 'ALA:aus2', format: 'image/png', transparent: true}),
    'Australia'
);

// add lc.addOverlay() layers as needed

For an overview of available layer types and options, see the [Leaflet docs on tile layers](https://leafletjs.com/examples/wms/wms.html).

Attribution prefix

To globally add an attribution prefix on maps (most likely an empty string)

'ATTRIBUTION_PREFIX': 'Powered by django-leaflet'

Default is None, which leaves the value to Leaflet’s default.

Scale control

Scale control may be set to show ‘metric’ (m/km), or ‘imperial’ (mi/ft) scale lines, or ‘both’. Default is ‘metric’.

Enable metric and imperial scale control:

'SCALE': 'both'

Disable scale control:

'SCALE': None

Minimap control

Shows a small map in the corner which shows the same as the main map with a set zoom offset:

'MINIMAP': True

By default it shows the tiles of the first layer in the list.

(More info…)

Reset view button

By default, a button appears below the zoom controls and, when clicked, shows the entire map. To remove this button, set:

'RESET_VIEW': False

Global initialization functions and window.maps

Since 0.7.0, the leaflet_map template tag no longer registers initialization functions in global scope, and no longer adds map objects into window.maps array by default. To restore these features, use:

'NO_GLOBALS' = False

Force Leaflet image path

If you are using staticfiles compression libraries such as django_compressor, which can do any of compressing, concatenating or renaming javascript files, this may break Leaflet’s own ability to determine its installed path, and in turn break the method L.Icon.Default.imagePath().

To use Django’s own knowledge of its static files to force this value explicitly, use:

'FORCE_IMAGE_PATH': True

Plugins

To ease the usage of plugins, django-leaflet allows specifying a set of plugins, that can later be referred to from the template tags by name:

'PLUGINS': {
    'name-of-plugin': {
        'css': ['relative/path/to/stylesheet.css', '/root/path/to/stylesheet.css'],
        'js': 'http://absolute-url.example.com/path/to/script.js',
        'auto-include': True,
    },
    . . .
}

Both ‘css’ and ‘js’ support identical features for specifying resource URLs:

  • can be either a plain string or a list of URLs
  • each string can be:
    • absolute URL - will be included as-is; example: http://absolute-url.example.com/path/to/script.js
    • a URL beginning from the root - will be included as-is; example: /root/path/to/stylesheet.css
    • a relative URL - settings.STATIC_URL will be prepended; example: relative/path/to/stylesheet.css will be included as /static/relative/path/to/stylesheet.css (depending on your setting for STATIC_URL)

Now, use leaflet_js and leaflet_css tags to load CSS and JS resources of configured Leaflet plugins.

By default only plugins with 'auto-include' as True will be included.

To include specific plugins in the page, specify plugin names, comma separated:

{% load leaflet_tags %}

<head>
    ...
    {% leaflet_js  plugins="bouncemarker,draw" %}
    {% leaflet_css plugins="bouncemarker,draw" %}
</head>

To include all plugins configured in LEAFLET_CONFIG['PLUGINS'], use:

{% leaflet_js plugins="ALL" %}
{% leaflet_css plugins="ALL" %}