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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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Welcome 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. gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8032/… gis.stackexchange.com/questions/13868/… Hopefully someone will answer here with more info on Mapbox – GeoKevin Sep 4 '12 at 11:58
thx for the answer – weblearner Sep 4 '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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