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/

• Wiki: https://wiki.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/

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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
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