Base Maps

You have several options for your base map. There are many free (and several paid) providers for map tiles. Also, this is a good time to talk about Mapbox. They are a commerical mapping company with several tools for making maps. You can design your own map tiles using Mapbox Studio and use them with leaflet. Doing so will require you to create an account with them and getting an API key.

map.js

Here are a few options from http://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/, a GitHub repository listing several different free options for map tile providers.




            

Result

Let's take a look at the result here.

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