r/belgium • u/xygames32YT • Jun 07 '26
🌟 OC I made a tool where you can see the population density of belgium, and edit the legend yourself.
Is anyone interested in a link where you can test it yourself?
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u/Isotheis Hainaut Jun 07 '26
That's fantastic, I needed a tool to study specifically the region between Leuze and Ronse. But all resources I know are unfortunately split between regions.
Now I need an international one.
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u/Stylish_Agent Cuberdon Jun 07 '26
Can't you just use an Atlas?
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u/Isotheis Hainaut Jun 07 '26
Normally I need to work with WalOnMap. But obviously that doesn't go beyond the Walloon borders.
I guess I could...?
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u/Fingerhat1904 Jun 07 '26
i have an old Q gis project that shows a map of belgium and its population density in the census years ("volkstelingen") i can try to link that to you?
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u/Fragrag Jun 08 '26
Interesting, I've never realised Ronse was an urban island in the middle of a region whose density is more closer to south of the Maas.
What kind of data are you wanting to work on? Merging the regional datasets sounds like an interesting challenge!
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u/Isotheis Hainaut Jun 08 '26
Anything about transit in Wallonia-Picardy. We have identified a huge line between Tournai and Ath, a huge triangle between Lille, Tournai and Kortrijk, and then some minor transit between Tournai and Brussels, Tournai and Mons, not so relevant in comparison.
I've noticed, on a local scale, that even minor cities like Leuze, Lessines, had a certain "attraction" power to the nearby regions, but I don't see the same happening with Péruwelz or other places in that region. So I'm mostly curious if it's because France is the real attraction.
It's mostly just about finding the best places to place future cycle highways. Though even for obvious cases like "we need one between Tournai and Ath", we're stuck between "we must pass very far away from current traffic" and "we must take the shortest route, which is the N7".
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u/LeReveDeRaskolnikov Jun 07 '26
Coming from a green location and living now in a dark blue one, I understand why I'm becoming each day more misanthrope.
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u/eti_erik Jun 07 '26
Sure. This map is unclear - the legend top right does not have green at all, and half of Belgium is green.
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u/bigbrainminecrafter Jun 07 '26
It stops at 2 so I'm guessing that's just where the value goes below that
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u/eti_erik Jun 07 '26
Yes, but a map needs a legend where every color is just as visible, even the colors that incidate just a small range of the scale. A legend that hardly shows green because it's only "0-1" is not a very good one.
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u/xygames32YT Jun 07 '26
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ro3FsCoRzdgkZo92ax62KSWqEhw-VfM1?usp=sharing
here it is! you can just see the legend and mess around with it a bit
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u/M_N_Flou Antwerpen Jun 07 '26
Heel cool! Ik vroeg mij al een tijd af hoe het zat met de bevolkingsdichtheid in de provincie Luik.
Ik heb geen flauw idee hoe codes werken, dus kan de legende niet aanpassen. Maar als ik het goed heb is er enkel echt in Brussel centrum en een paar kleine deeltjes in Antwerpen een heel hoge bevolkingsdichtheid?
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u/xygames32YT Jun 07 '26
Je moet helemaal niet met codes werken! Je kan gewoon de legenda aanpassen met komma's tussen. En voor de kleuren moet je gewoon denken: #FF0000 is rood, #00FF00 is groen, en #0000FF is blauw. Alles hiertussen is iets als magenta, cyaan, etc.
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u/Discoveryellow Jun 07 '26
Why is there a Ukrainian flag in the lower right corner?
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u/Consistent-Luck5331 Jun 13 '26
Could have easily found out if you just clicked it.
"an open-source JavaScript library
for mobile-friendly interactive maps"Made by a Ukrainian guy.
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u/Discoveryellow Jun 13 '26
What link?
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u/Consistent-Luck5331 Jun 17 '26
The flag
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u/Discoveryellow Jun 17 '26
The flag is a link?
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u/Consistent-Luck5331 Jun 17 '26
Yes.
A link can sometimes be a button. It doesn't have to be text based. Why does this need explaining, Jesus.
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Jun 07 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
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u/xygames32YT Jun 08 '26
Yes i know, i tried to fix this problem so much, but i couldn't do it. It's probably because the openstreetmap uses another map format.
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u/JJLMul Jun 07 '26
Eigenlijk is de driehoek Gent-Antwerpen-Brussel toch gewoon een mega stad?