CartoCosmos

Leaflet 1.5.x for Planetary Mapping

2019-2020 NAU Capstone Project

Introduction

The aim of this project is to create a plug-in extension to the Leaflet 1.5.x web-based mapping interface to allow it to support planetary data sets and the functional needs of users needing to explore such datasets. The technical goals for this project include modifying existing Leaflet functions and/or adding new Leaflet function to allow for additional options to support planetary data, as well as more robust support for non-Earth data sets. Sponsored by the United States Geological Survey, Astrogeology division.

Leaflet is the core JavaScript library we are building off of. It is just 38 KB, is mobile-friendly, interactive, and has all the mapping features most developers ever need.

Babel is a toolchain that we will use to convert ECMAScript into a backwards compatible version of JavaScript for use in current and older browsers or environments.

We intend to make our project compatible with Jupyter Notebooks for ease of future development and use by the USGS community of researchers and scientists