Maps & Cartography
Libraries (JavaScript)
Leaflet: https://leafletjs.com/ Plain and Simple. Good solution if you want a simple map with a few markers and/or GeoJSON data.
OpenLayers: https://openlayers.org/ Swiss knife. Good solution if you want a map more complex features (WMS, WFS, ...).
MapLibre: https://maplibre.org/ Open-source fork of Mapbox library.
Tools
OpenStreetMap
You need a map, you need a database with (geographical) data from all over the World, don't go any further, OpenStreetMap is the solution.
Main website: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
API: https://overpass-api.de/ (playground: https://overpass-turbo.eu/)
If you need help, contact Belgian community via https://openstreetmap.be/en/contact.html There are also most likely members of the Belgian community that are part of osoc, ask around.
Routing
The following services are based on OpenStreetMap data.
openrouteservice: https://openrouteservice.org/
GraphHopper: https://www.graphhopper.com/
Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM): http://project-osrm.org/
...
Open-data
Geoportal of the Belgian federal institutions: https://www.geo.be/
Geopunt (Flanders - Vlaanderen): https://www.geopunt.be/catalogus
Géoportail de la Wallonie (Wallonia - Wallonie): https://geoportail.wallonie.be/catalogue-donnees-et-services
bric.brussels (Brussels - Bruxelles - Brussel): https://bric.brussels/en/our-solutions/urbis-solutions
...
Last updated
Was this helpful?