This map displays Free Software use in the public administrations, as well as how friendly the EU countries are toward Free Software, in term of legislation and policies.

Features

Multi-layer map. We have data about countries and public administrations. The public administrations data are only shown when zooming on a country
Country selection. Give the ability to quickly jump to a given country
Display a pop-up by clicking on an object. We can display detailed description or graphics in a pop-up

How to deploy this?

As everything is rendered client-side, the map can be hosted by any web server.

The data

For now we use dummy data. The data displayed on the map is currently randomly generated.

Files

There are three data files:

countries.js. See this script for details.
geo-cities.json.js is a GeoJSON file used to put cities on the map.
geo-countries.json.js is a GeoJSON file used to put countries on the map.

Format

For the data format, we use the GeoJSON standard. You can see an example on the Wikipedia page. Here is a sample of the data used for this map:

var cities = {
    "type": "FeatureCollection",
    "features": [
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [2.3522219000000177, 48.856614 ] },
            "properties": {
                "name": "Paris",
                "text": "BlaBla"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [2.1734034999999494, 41.38506389999999]},
            "properties": {
                "name": "Barcelona",
                "text": "BlaBla"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Under the properties object we can put arbitrary data for each city and for each country, this can be used to display information.

Technology stack

This project relies on leaflet to draw the map.

License

This software is copyright 2018 by the Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. and licensed under the GPLv3 license. For details see the "LICENSE" file in the top level directory of https://git.fsfe.org/pmpc/map.