Program & speakers

Webmapping overview

OpenLayers, Leaflet and Mapbox-gl-js are the three major open source options that one might consider when dealing with web maps. We'll try to cover their strengths in order to help select one at the beginning of a project. Plus, besides their respective technical merits, they also come with their own cultures and communities that will be worth considering.

by Pierre Marchand (http://atelier-cartographique.be - Bruxelles)

OpenLayers3, a free and open source multi-purpose library for web mapping

OpenLayers 3 is a JavaScript based library for web mapping, published under BSD license. It groups a set of functionalities to create both lightweight web mapping applications and more heavy web mapping applications for advanced usages. It enables display of geographic features (markers, lines, polygons) with custom styles, most of the time with background maps services from various sources (including OpenStreetMap). It manages all interactions to select, draw geographic entities, display, measure geographic coordinates and manage different Earth representations using cartographic projections.

by Thomas Gratier (http://webgeodatavore.com - Nantes)

Location

Bruxelles Environnement
Site de Tour & Taxis
Avenue du Port 86C / 3000
1000 Bruxelles

About OSGeoDevEvening

OSGeoDevEvening is an event where developers / researchers can learn & speak about a specific tech. We are always looking for speakers for the next events, so if you want to give a presentation about R, grass, QGIS, PostGIS... please contact us.

OSGeoDevEvening - OpenLayers3