Is it possible to change the map source used my Leaflet on the Map Widget?

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It is using an ESRI map by default, I would like to use OpenStreetMap… is it possible to change? how?
thanks!

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If you know how to edit html and use github, you can fork the grist-widget repo and change these lines:

There was a thread about this in our discord that might be useful:

Someone enthusiastic could make this a configurable setting, since it has come up a few times, using “widget options”:

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thanks for your quick answer!
And for conducting me to discord. I don’t like discord terms at all but ok I’m there now.
I have the self hosted version, so I should just find the file with the map source somewhere… have been looking for it but can’t find it yet… it should be called map/page.js?

thanks!

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The custom widgets aren’t usually bundled with the source code, in order to make them easier for people to customize. Different teams often have their own sets. There is a GRIST_WIDGET_LIST_URL variable that controls where they are read from. By default, they are read from this repo, published as github pages:

Does that make any more sense?

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And someone did, some time back, we just dropped the ball on reviewing. The setting should be available shortly.

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cool!
So this will probably be included in release v1.1.14 ?
thanks!!

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I think it does, so I would have to fork the repo, customize my own and then set up my grist install so it uses my repo and not the default one… sad thing is that I would be skipping any updates from mainstream repo…

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Custom widgets are separate from the Grist app. So the update should take effect nowish (some fuzziness around browser caching etc).

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it is working beautifully! thanks!!

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oops! nope… I mean, it is working, but if you close the map (for example by choosing a new table), then open the map back again, it goes back to ESRI map.
In other words, the Map configuration is not saved.

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There should be a button to save the configuration - dashing to a meeting, but it would look greenish I think and be to the right at the top of the widget?

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yep… I didn’t see it. Sorry. It was outside of the pop up. Now I found it. thanks!

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