# L7

> Large-scale WebGL-powered Geospatial Data Visualization analysis framework, maintained by Alibaba

- Category: [JavaScript map & geospatial visualization libraries](https://awesomedataviz.com/categories/javascript-maps/)
- Website: https://l7.antv.antgroup.com
- Repository: https://github.com/antvis/L7
- License: MIT
- Language: TypeScript
- Status: Active (commits in the last 90 days)
- GitHub stars: 4,070
- Commits in the last 12 months: 112
- Contributors: 62
- Last commit: Jul 30, 2026
- Latest release: v2.22.5 (Mar 11, 2025)
- Install (npm): `npm install @antv/l7`, 29.4K downloads per week
- Topics: Maps & geospatial visualization, 3D & scientific visualization, GPU-accelerated & WebGL visualization, Visualizing large datasets

## Overview

L7 is an open-source JavaScript mapping library released under the MIT license. Its GitHub repository has 4,070 stars, 656 forks, and 62 contributors. It is actively developed with 112 commits in the last 12 months. The latest release, v2.22.5, was published on Mar 11, 2025. On npm it is downloaded about 29.4K times per week.

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