Convert to leaflet plugin

[rob42]

Teppo,
If this tracking from signalk data capability was a leaflet plugin then it could easily be added to any leaflet map....
Also overlay/tracking a single vessel (your own) must be very similar, so a simple chartplotter would just require the plugin + filter for 'self' ?
Rob

[tkurki]

Apparently a Leaflet plugin isn't a big deal, it is just Javascript that uses the Leaflet API. In fact the home button is a L.EasyButton.

So the way to go about this would be to shovel all the code into L.maptracker and then provide the options to configure it the way you want. To make it play nice with other plugins jquery dependency should disappear, just use plain js, it is overkill anyway.

[rob42]

Cool. I had the thought that the vessel tracking, waypoints, snail trails, wind, etc could all be plugin layers in leaflet. Then users could mix and match to make a map, show and hide layers, etc. Plus we could benefit from others developing plugins to complement them.
I will have a look at the freeboard code and see what I can extract.