tl;dr:

Developing a webmapping application together with Statistics Netherlands to replace their current offerings of webmapping such as 'CBS in uw Buurt' which have various accessibility issues and has Google looking in over your shoulder.

CBSviewer, an accessible, open standards based webmap viewer

12 apr 2013

The past months I’ve been busy developing a web mapping application together with Statistics Netherlands to replace their current offerings of web mapping such as CBS in uw Buurt which have various accessibility issues and has Google looking in over your shoulder. The new application can be used with both the keyboard and a mouse and and will fallback to a non CSS and/or non Javascript version if needed (or requested) by the user providing a much better and safer experience.

Key features of the application are:

open standards based interfaces WMS, WMTS, OpenLS LUS and WCAG
easy modification using maven war overlay techniques (as an example you can look into the NOK viewer project on Github
easy to localize using property files / resource bundles for all the text
easy to configure thematic maps using a set of xml files
easy styling adjustments using Sass and modular CSS

The project builds on well documented, well supported and proven open source libraries such as GeoTools, OpenLayers, jQuery and jQuery UI.

We’re not quite there yet but you can follow the progress of the project through the Github site

screen capture of the application — Rich client screen showing WOZ (property tax) values aggregrated to 100m blocks

This post was previously published on GISpunt.

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