How to use different tile providers

Just playing around with ipyleaflet - it’s a neat project! I wasn’t a big fan of the default OpenStreetMap tiles (too busy) so I figured out how to use MapBox tiles.

In case it’s of use for anyone else I’ve documented how to do so below. Since this isn’t a real issue per-se feel free to close…

Using Different Tile Providers

The underlying leaflet.js library is provider agnostic and can be used with almost any tile provider. A preview of freely available tile providers is available at http://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/.

MapBox is a tile provider which has a free plan which requires signing up to get an access token. To use MapBox (as with any other provider) you simply provide the correct url to the TileLayer constructor - e.g.

url = "https://api.mapbox.com/v4/mapbox.outdoors/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?access_token=%s" % os.environ['MAPBOX_API_TOKEN']
provider = TileLayer(url=url, opacity=1)
m = Map(default_tiles=provider, center=(-27.4698, 153.0251), zoom=5)
m.layout.height = '800px'
m

[SylvainCorlay]

We can now instantiate a tile layer by providing the URL of an existing tile service, or use one of the pre-registered tile layers as shown in the BaseMap example notebook.

[SylvainCorlay]

Thanks!