New Leaflet control: L.Control.AccordionLegend

Some time back I came up with a custom legend control for Leaflet. Unlike the basic L.Layers control, we wanted it to be really snazzy:

• The layer list broken into sections, not by basemap/overlay, but thematic similarity: Parks in a section, Admin Boundaries as a section, Health Statistics as a section, etc. And the sections should have accordion-style behavior: clicking a section title should expand and collapse, show only one section at a time so as not to overload the screen, and so on.
• Each layer has an opacity slider.
• Each layer has a legend.

So, here it is:
https://github.com/GreenInfo-Network/L.Control.AccordionLegend
http://greeninfo-network.github.io/L.Control.AccordionLegend/

Enjoy!

New Leaflet control: L.Control.CartographicScale

A request we get now and then, is to add a readout of the current map scale denominator, e.g. a readout that changes from "1:24K" to "1:12K" as you zoom in a notch. These are handy for cartographers who still think in terms of scale, instead of zoom levels.

OpenLayers had the handy-dandy OpenLayers.Control.Scale but I couldn't find a similar such control for Leaflet. So I wrote it.

http://greeninfo-network.github.io/L.Control.CartographicScale/

https://github.com/GreenInfo-Network/L.Control.CartographicScale



I should point out that the accuracy of this sort of thing, has always been dubious. Between the projection itself (a "square degree" in Lagos is not the same area as in Barrow, and Greenland is not that big in real life) and the realities of screen resolution (96dpi is for mid-90s CRTs) these scale readouts have always had very poor accuracy and always will. It's the mathematics of a world that isn't flat, you know?

Still, the control is accurate enough for cartographers to get the sense of "2K or 20K?" and that's what was really needed here.