Leaflet Heatmap Layer
Heat layer overlay using leaflet.heat plugin. Visualizes point density with configurable radius, blur, gradient, and intensity settings. Ideal for activity, incident, or population density maps.
Template details
- map
- heatmap
- density
- geospatial
- leaflet
- heat-layer
When to use this template
This visualization makes obvious where concentrations of events or entities are highest across a geographic area. An analyst would reach for it to quickly identify hot spots, areas of high activity, or regions with a greater density of a particular phenomenon, without being distracted by individual data points. It effectively reveals underlying spatial patterns and trends that might be obscured in a scatter plot of individual markers.
- Datasets with numerous individual geographic points.
- Data where the density of points is more critical than individual locations.
- Records containing latitude and longitude coordinates.
- Optional third dimension for weighting point intensity or significance.
- Large volumes of data points that would clutter a traditional map.
- Data representing events or phenomena occurring at specific locations.