Display thousands of polygons in Leaflet

In this Leaflet JS example, you will learn how to handle thousands of polygons using the leaflet-maptilersdk plugin. Load large amounts of data into Leaflet without affecting the performance of your application.

This example shows how to add a polygon layer with a color ramp symbol that changes the fill color based on the map zoom level, with the help of the polygon layer helper. Download the building’s sample data.

Replace YOUR_MAPTILER_API_KEY_HERE with your actual MapTiler API key.

Learn more

Check out the Polygon Layer Helper documentation and look at the Polygon Helper examples to see the visualization possibilities.

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