What is the difference between Leaflet and Mapbox, and how are they used together? Like the API and what exactly are they and is Mapbox using Leaflet?
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3Welcome to GIS SE. I suggest you take a look at these two links. Mapbox is not specifically addressed in either, but they do contain info on Leaflet and many other APIs. http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8032/comparison-of-javascript-mapping-libraries http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/13868/looking-for-a-developer-friendly-web-gis Hopefully someone will answer here with more info on Mapbox – Sep 04 '12 at 11:58
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thx for the answer – vetri02 Sep 04 '12 at 18:09
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Leaflet is a Javascript Map Client API - it requests images from services like MapBox and provides the panning / zooming experience you'd see in Google Maps or similar. You'd use the two together - MapBox provides tiles of maps, and Leaflet makes them usable in web pages.
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