Leaflet.js Essentials

Consuming ESRI services

In the first example of this chapter, you learned how to use the esri-leaflet plugin for basemaps. You then learned how to use a plugin to work with the most common ESRI file format: the shapefile. While you will most certainly run into a shapefile, you will increasingly find yourself running into ESRI services that provide endpoints that you can connect to and consume geographic services from. With the esri-leaflet plugin, you can connect to these services, and besides basemaps, display five other layer types:

• The tiled map layer
• The dynamic map layer
• The feature layer
• The clustered feature layer
• The heatmap feature layer

Once you know how to add one of these layers, you can add any of the others because the process is almost ...