Workshop – Visualizing Maps with Leaflet (Jeff Turner, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD student in Dept. of History)

In this workshop, we’ll learn to use Leaflet, “the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps,” to visualize basic digital maps. “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.”

https://leafletjs.com/

For this workshop, we’ll explore some basic Leaflet mapping and showcase a variety of visual integrations to display potentially complex datasets. No previous experience or familiarity required! But please bring a laptop.