Tools for improving web maps. The centerpiece of the code is a client implementation of the MBTiles interaction specification.

For full documentation of supported mapping APIs and how to use Wax see http://mapbox.github.com/wax.

If you're building a new site, **use the latest tag of Wax 6.x.x. Version 7 is in the master branch and is unstable.

To find more detail of what has changed in each version, consult CHANGELOG.md.

• Google Maps API v3
• Leaflet 0.x.x
• Modest Maps 1.x.x
• OpenLayers 2.11
• ESRI ArcGIS API 2.8

For end users, a minified library is already provided in dist/.

But for developers you can rebuild a minified library by running:

npm install --dev
make

Wax currently includes three externals:

• reqwest (MIT)
• mustache.js (MIT)
• html-sanitizer from Google Caja (Apache)