How to use Leaflet Map for free?

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You can use the Leaflet library for free, only the tileprovider used in the examples, Mapbox, asks money for serving tiles. You just need a free tileprovider like OpenStreetMap for instance:

var map = new L.Map('leaflet', {
    center: [0, 0],
    zoom: 0,
    layers: [
        new L.TileLayer('http://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
            'attribution': 'Map data © <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors'
        })
    ]
});

body {
    margin: 0;
}

html, body, #leaflet {
    height: 100%;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Leaflet 1.0.3</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="//unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/leaflet.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="leaflet"></div>
    <script type="application/javascript" src="//unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/leaflet.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

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Tony

Updated on June 15, 2022

Comments

Tony almost 2 years

Leaflet is open source and free. However the examples on leaflet site use Mapbox to render map. Mapbox is more expensive than Google map (Mapbox pricing). The question is: can anyone use Leaflet really free?
whyAto8 almost 4 years

is using OSM tile completely free, i was just looking at this page - operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles and looks like they say otherwise.
flywire over 3 years

To clarify - "Heavy use (e.g. distributing an app that uses tiles from openstreetmap.org) is forbidden without prior permission ... Alternative OpenStreetMap Tile Providers ..."