Show drawn polygon area

Use Leaflet.draw to draw a polygon and leaflet-geodesy to calculate its area in square meters.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>Show drawn polygon area</title>
<meta name='viewport' content='initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no' />
<script src='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v3.1.1/mapbox.js'></script>
<link href='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v3.1.1/mapbox.css' rel='stylesheet' />
<style>
  body { margin:0; padding:0; }
  #map { position:absolute; top:0; bottom:0; width:100%; }
</style>
</head>
<body>

<link href='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/plugins/leaflet-draw/v0.4.10/leaflet.draw.css' rel='stylesheet' />
<script src='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/plugins/leaflet-draw/v0.4.10/leaflet.draw.js'></script>
<script src='https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/plugins/leaflet-geodesy/v0.1.0/leaflet-geodesy.js'></script>

<div id='map'></div>

<script>
L.mapbox.accessToken = '<your access token here>';
var map = L.mapbox.map('map', 'mapbox.streets')
    .setView([38.89399, -77.03659], 17);

var featureGroup = L.featureGroup().addTo(map);

var drawControl = new L.Control.Draw({
  edit: {
    featureGroup: featureGroup
  },
  draw: {
    polygon: true,
    polyline: false,
    rectangle: false,
    circle: false,
    marker: false
  }
}).addTo(map);

map.on('draw:created', showPolygonArea);
map.on('draw:edited', showPolygonAreaEdited);

function showPolygonAreaEdited(e) {
  e.layers.eachLayer(function(layer) {
    showPolygonArea({ layer: layer });
  });
}
function showPolygonArea(e) {
  featureGroup.clearLayers();
  featureGroup.addLayer(e.layer);
  e.layer.bindPopup((LGeo.area(e.layer) / 1000000).toFixed(2) + ' km<sup>2</sup>');
  e.layer.openPopup();
}
</script>

to create your own custom map and use it in this example.

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