Heatmaps with Leaflet.heat
The first heatmap you will make will be a density heatmap, using the Leaflet.heat
plugin. You can download the JavaScript plugin at https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.heat. The following steps will walk you through creating your first heatmap:
- Using
LeafletEssentials.html
, add a reference toLeaflet.heat.js
with either a URL to a remote copy or the path to your local copy, as shown in the following code:<script src="http://Leaflet.github.io/Leaflet.heat/dist/Leaflet-heat.js"></script> or, <script src="Leaflet-heat.js"></script>
- Add an array of points. Your points can contain additional information but must have the latitude and longitude as the first two elements. The following code shows you three points from the code. The full code contains many more, which will allow you to create the heatmap:
var points = [ [35.1555 , -106.591838 , "<img src='http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6831137393_fa38634fd7_m.jpg...