Leaflet-Wikipedia

A leaflet plugin module to display Wikipedia entries on a map layer

Example

http://matthewbarker.github.io/leaflet-wikipedia/

Dependencies

• leaflet
• browser-jsonp

Installation instructions

• npm:npm install leaflet-wikipedia
• Bower:bower install leaflet-wikipedia

Simple example

var map = L.map('map').setView([52.4235064, -1.7134741999999998], 14);
 
// Add an OpenStreetMap tile layer
L.tileLayer('http://{s}.tile.osm.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
    attribution: '&copy; <a href="http://osm.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors'
}).addTo(map);
 
// Add a Wikipedia layer
L.layerGroup.wikipediaLayer().addTo(map);

Advanced options

L.layerGroup.wikipediaLayer({ target: '_blank' }).addTo(map);

url

• The URL for Wikipedia
• type: string
• default: https://en.wikipedia.org/

limit

• The maximum number of search results to return
• type: number
• default: 100

popupOnMouseover

• If true then the popup will open on mouse over; otherwise it won't
• type: Boolean
• default: false

clearOutsideBounds

• If true then markers outside the current map bounds will be removed; otherwise they won't
• type: Boolean
• default: false

target

• Specifies where to open the linked Wikipedia page
• type: string
• default: _self

images

• Specifies the folder that contains the Wikipedia icon images
• type: string
• default: images/