Ilya Zverev just posted a cool use of canvas options in Leaflet. Tileset too distracting but it’s already rendered and cached? Just make it grayscale . . .
<html>
<head>
<title>B&W TileLayer Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://npmcdn.com/leaflet@0.7.7/dist/leaflet.css" />
<script src="https://npmcdn.com/leaflet@0.7.7/dist/leaflet.js"></script>
<style>
body { margin: 0; }
#map { height: 100%; }
</style>
<script>
/*
* L.TileLayer.Grayscale is a regular tilelayer with grayscale makeover.
*/
L.TileLayer.Grayscale = L.TileLayer.extend({
options: {
enableCanvas: true
},
initialize: function(url, options) {
var canvasEl = document.createElement('canvas');
if (!(canvasEl.getContext && canvasEl.getContext('2d'))) {
options.enableCanvas = false;
}
L.TileLayer.prototype.initialize.call(this, url, options);
},
_loadTile: function(tile, tilePoint) {
tile.setAttribute('crossorigin', 'anonymous');
L.TileLayer.prototype._loadTile.call(this, tile, tilePoint);
},
_tileOnLoad: function() {
if (this._layer.options.enableCanvas && !this.canvasContext) {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = canvas.height = this._layer.options.tileSize;
this.canvasContext = canvas.getContext("2d");
}
var ctx = this.canvasContext;
if (ctx) {
this.onload = null; // to prevent an infinite loop
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
var imgd = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, this._layer.options.tileSize, this._layer.options.tileSize);
var pix = imgd.data;
for (var i = 0, n = pix.length; i < n; i += 4) {
pix[i] = pix[i + 1] = pix[i + 2] = (3 * pix[i] + 4 * pix[i + 1] + pix[i + 2]) / 8;
}
ctx.putImageData(imgd, 0, 0);
this.removeAttribute("crossorigin");
this.src = ctx.canvas.toDataURL();
}
L.TileLayer.prototype._tileOnLoad.call(this);
}
});
L.tileLayer.grayscale = function(url, options) {
return new L.TileLayer.Grayscale(url, options);
};
function init() {
var map = L.map('map').setView([55.67610, 12.56834], 16);
L.tileLayer.grayscale('//tile.stamen.com/watercolor/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
attribution: 'Map data © Stamen design & <a href="//openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors',
maxZoom: 18,
minZoom: 2
}).addTo(map);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="javascript:init();">
<div id="map"></div>
</body>