OSGeo - User contributions [en]

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T09:50:31Z

Jbelien:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Jonathan Beliën
|JobTitle=Web Developer
|Country=Belgium
|City=Brussels
|Coordinate=50.87579, 4.32426
|LocalChapter=Belgium
|Website=https://github.com/jbelien/
|Languages=French; English; Dutch
|Info=I'm a Web Developer from Brussels, Belgium.
I've been working the last 20 years developing web applications and services using and displaying geographical data. It quickly became clear that the way to go was to use open-source tools: MapServer, Leaflet, OpenLayers, GDAL, ...
Since I'm a developer using open-source tools, it's always rewarding to be able to contribute back to the project when encountering some issues (I've contributed to Leaflet and OpenLayers) but also being able to extend the open-source ecosystem around the tools you're using (I've developed a PHP Library to write MapServer Mapfile).
I also use OpenStreetMap since 2012 and am currently part of the board of OpenStreetMap Belgium, the Belgian Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
}}

{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}

* Member of [https://www.osgeo.be/ OSGeoBE], the [[Belgium|Belgian Local Chapter]]
* Speaker at [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G BE 2018]: ''Why (and how to) switch to OpenStreetMap for your website ?''

;Profile last updated: 02 10 2026

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo Advocate]]

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T09:36:02Z

Jbelien:

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T09:35:25Z

Jbelien:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Jonathan Beliën
|JobTitle=Web Developer
|Country=Belgium
|City=Brussels
|Coordinate=50.87579, 4.32426
|LocalChapter=Belgium
|Website=https://github.com/jbelien/
|Languages=French; English; Dutch
|Info=I'm a Web Developer from Brussels, Belgium.
I've been working the last 20 years developing we applications and services using and displaying geographical data. It quickly became clear that the way to go was to use open-source tools: MapServer, Leaflet, OpenLayers, GDAL, ...
Since I'm a developer using open-source tools, it's always rewarding to be able to contribute back to the project when encountering some issues (I've contributed to Leaflet and OpenLayers) but also being able to extend the open-source ecosystem around the tools you're using (I've developed a PHP Library to write MapServer Mapfile).
I also use OpenStreetMap since 2012 and am currently part of the board of OpenStreetMap Belgium, the Belgian Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
}}

{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}

* Member of [https://www.osgeo.be/ OSGeoBE], the [[Belgium|Belgian Local Chapter]]
* Speaker at [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G BE 2018]: ''Why (and how to) switch to OpenStreetMap for your website ?''

;Profile last updated: 02 10 2026

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo_Advocate]]

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T09:28:07Z

Jbelien:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Jonathan Beliën
|JobTitle=Web Developer
|Country=Belgium
|City=Brussels
|Coordinate=50.87579, 4.32426
|LocalChapter=Belgium
|Website=https://github.com/jbelien/
|Languages=French; English; Dutch
|Info=I'm a Web Developer from Brussels.

I work as employee in a small company from Laeken (Brussels) named GEO-6 since 2005.
We mainly develop web applications using web mapping.
At first we used our own MapServer (developed by a former employee - running under Windows to display MapInfo files) with our own JavaScript library to display and interact with the map. Yes, we totally reinvented the wheel ... not very clever I agree.

In 2013, we finally decided to switch from Windows to Linux and switch from our custom map applications (difficult to maintain) to open-source solutions. We choose to use OSGeo MapServer, Leaflet JS Library and the power of GDAL library. Very (VERY) happy to have switched even if today I regret to have chosen Leaflet over OpenLayers (which seemed a little bit "old") and so currently (slowly) migrating from Leaflet to OpenLayers 3.

I also work as Freelance Web Developer on my spare time. Also in web development but not "limited" to web mapping applications.

I'm an OpenStreetMap member since 2012 but did my first real contribution last Saturday (not very proud about having waited 4 years to finally contribute) : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien
}}

{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}

* Member of [https://www.osgeo.be/ OSGeoBE], the [[Belgium|Belgian Local Chapter]]
* Speaker at [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G BE 2018]: ''Why (and how to) switch to OpenStreetMap for your website ?''

;Profile last updated: 02 10 2026

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo_Advocate]]

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T09:27:33Z

Jbelien:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Jonathan Beliën
|JobTitle=Web Developer
|Country=Belgium
|City=Brussels
|Coordinate=50.87579, 4.32426
|LocalChapter=Belgium
|Website=https://github.com/jbelien/
|Languages=French; English; Dutch
|Info=I'm a Web Developer from Brussels.

I work as employee in a small company from Laeken (Brussels) named GEO-6 since 2005.
We mainly develop web applications using web mapping.
At first we used our own MapServer (developed by a former employee - running under Windows to display MapInfo files) with our own JavaScript library to display and interact with the map. Yes, we totally reinvented the wheel ... not very clever I agree.

In 2013, we finally decided to switch from Windows to Linux and switch from our custom map applications (difficult to maintain) to open-source solutions. We choose to use OSGeo MapServer, Leaflet JS Library and the power of GDAL library. Very (VERY) happy to have switched even if today I regret to have chosen Leaflet over OpenLayers (which seemed a little bit "old") and so currently (slowly) migrating from Leaflet to OpenLayers 3.

I also work as Freelance Web Developer on my spare time. Also in web development but not "limited" to web mapping applications.

I'm an OpenStreetMap member since 2012 but did my first real contribution last Saturday (not very proud about having waited 4 years to finally contribute) : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien
}}

{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}

* Member of OSGeoBE, the [[Belgium|Belgian Local Chapter]]
* Speaker at [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G BE 2018]: ''Why (and how to) switch to OpenStreetMap for your website ?''

;Profile last updated: 02 10 2026

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo_Advocate]]

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T09:26:27Z

Jbelien:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Jonathan Beliën
|JobTitle=Web Developer
|Country=Belgium
|City=Brussels
|Coordinate=50.87579, 4.32426
|LocalChapter=Belgium
|Website=https://github.com/jbelien/
|Languages=French; English; Dutch
|Info=I'm a Web Developer from Brussels.

I work as employee in a small company from Laeken (Brussels) named GEO-6 since 2005.
We mainly develop web applications using web mapping.
At first we used our own MapServer (developed by a former employee - running under Windows to display MapInfo files) with our own JavaScript library to display and interact with the map. Yes, we totally reinvented the wheel ... not very clever I agree.

In 2013, we finally decided to switch from Windows to Linux and switch from our custom map applications (difficult to maintain) to open-source solutions. We choose to use OSGeo MapServer, Leaflet JS Library and the power of GDAL library. Very (VERY) happy to have switched even if today I regret to have chosen Leaflet over OpenLayers (which seemed a little bit "old") and so currently (slowly) migrating from Leaflet to OpenLayers 3.

I also work as Freelance Web Developer on my spare time. Also in web development but not "limited" to web mapping applications.

I'm an OpenStreetMap member since 2012 but did my first real contribution last Saturday (not very proud about having waited 4 years to finally contribute) : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien
}}

{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}

* Member of [[Belgium|Belgian Local Chapter]]
* Speaker at [https://2018.foss4g.be/ FOSS4G BE 2018]: ''Why (and how to) switch to OpenStreetMap for your website ?''

;Profile last updated: 02 10 2026

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo_Advocate]]

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T09:22:15Z

Jbelien:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Jonathan Beliën
|JobTitle=Web Developer
|Country=Belgium
|City=Brussels
|Coordinate=50.87579, 4.32426
|LocalChapter=Belgium
|Website=https://github.com/jbelien/
|Languages=French; English; Dutch
|Info=I'm a Web Developer from Brussels.

I work as employee in a small company from Laeken (Brussels) named GEO-6 since 2005.
We mainly develop web applications using web mapping.
At first we used our own MapServer (developed by a former employee - running under Windows to display MapInfo files) with our own JavaScript library to display and interact with the map. Yes, we totally reinvented the wheel ... not very clever I agree.

In 2013, we finally decided to switch from Windows to Linux and switch from our custom map applications (difficult to maintain) to open-source solutions. We choose to use OSGeo MapServer, Leaflet JS Library and the power of GDAL library. Very (VERY) happy to have switched even if today I regret to have chosen Leaflet over OpenLayers (which seemed a little bit "old") and so currently (slowly) migrating from Leaflet to OpenLayers 3.

I also work as Freelance Web Developer on my spare time. Also in web development but not "limited" to web mapping applications.

I'm an OpenStreetMap member since 2012 but did my first real contribution last Saturday (not very proud about having waited 4 years to finally contribute) : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien
}}

{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}

* Member of [[Belgium|Belgian Local Chapter]]

;Profile last updated: 02 10 2026

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo_Advocate]]

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T09:21:14Z

Jbelien:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Jonathan Beliën
|JobTitle=Web Developer
|Country=Belgium
|City=Brussels
|Coordinate=50.87579, 4.32426
|LocalChapter=Belgium
|Website=https://github.com/jbelien/
|Languages=French; English; Dutch
|Info=I'm a Web Developer from Brussels.

I work as employee in a small company from Laeken (Brussels) named GEO-6 since 2005.
We mainly develop web applications using web mapping.
At first we used our own MapServer (developed by a former employee - running under Windows to display MapInfo files) with our own JavaScript library to display and interact with the map. Yes, we totally reinvented the wheel ... not very clever I agree.

In 2013, we finally decided to switch from Windows to Linux and switch from our custom map applications (difficult to maintain) to open-source solutions. We choose to use OSGeo MapServer, Leaflet JS Library and the power of GDAL library. Very (VERY) happy to have switched even if today I regret to have chosen Leaflet over OpenLayers (which seemed a little bit "old") and so currently (slowly) migrating from Leaflet to OpenLayers 3.

I also work as Freelance Web Developer on my spare time. Also in web development but not "limited" to web mapping applications.

I'm an OpenStreetMap member since 2012 but did my first real contribution last Saturday (not very proud about having waited 4 years to finally contribute) : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien
}}

{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}

;Profile last updated: 02 10 2026

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo_Advocate]]

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T09:16:51Z

Jbelien:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Jonathan Beliën
|JobTitle=Web Developer
|Country=Belgium
|City=Brussels
|Coordinate=50.87579, 4.32426
|LocalChapter=Belgium
|Website=https://github.com/jbelien/
|Languages=French; English; Dutch
|Info=I'm a Web Developer from Brussels.

I work as employee in a small company from Laeken (Brussels) named GEO-6 since 2005.
We mainly develop web applications using web mapping.
At first we used our own MapServer (developed by a former employee - running under Windows to display MapInfo files) with our own JavaScript library to display and interact with the map. Yes, we totally reinvented the wheel ... not very clever I agree.

In 2013, we finally decided to switch from Windows to Linux and switch from our custom map applications (difficult to maintain) to open-source solutions. We choose to use OSGeo MapServer, Leaflet JS Library and the power of GDAL library. Very (VERY) happy to have switched even if today I regret to have chosen Leaflet over OpenLayers (which seemed a little bit "old") and so currently (slowly) migrating from Leaflet to OpenLayers 3.

I also work as Freelance Web Developer on my spare time. Also in web development but not "limited" to web mapping applications.

I'm an OpenStreetMap member since 2012 but did my first real contribution last Saturday (not very proud about having waited 4 years to finally contribute) : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien
}}

{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}

[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
[[Category:OSGeo_Advocate]]

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T08:55:15Z

Jbelien:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Jonathan Beliën
|JobTitle=Web Developer
|Country=Belgium
|City=Brussels
|Coordinate=50.87579, 4.32426
|LocalChapter=Belgium
|Website=https://github.com/jbelien/
|Languages=French; English; Dutch
|Info=I'm a Web Developer from Brussels.

I work as employee in a small company from Laeken (Brussels) named GEO-6 since 2005.
We mainly develop web applications using web mapping.
At first we used our own MapServer (developed by a former employee - running under Windows to display MapInfo files) with our own JavaScript library to display and interact with the map. Yes, we totally reinvented the wheel ... not very clever I agree.

In 2013, we finally decided to switch from Windows to Linux and switch from our custom map applications (difficult to maintain) to open-source solutions. We choose to use OSGeo MapServer, Leaflet JS Library and the power of GDAL library. Very (VERY) happy to have switched even if today I regret to have chosen Leaflet over OpenLayers (which seemed a little bit "old") and so currently (slowly) migrating from Leaflet to OpenLayers 3.

I also work as Freelance Web Developer on my spare time. Also in web development but not "limited" to web mapping applications.

I'm an OpenStreetMap member since 2012 but did my first real contribution last Saturday (not very proud about having waited 4 years to finally contribute) : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien
}}

{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}

[[Category: OSGeo Member]]

User:Jbelien

2026-10-02T08:54:57Z

Jbelien:

{{OSGeo Member
|Name=Jonathan Beliën
|JobTitle=Web Developer
|Country=Belgium
|City=Brussels
|Coordinate=50.87579, 4.32426
|LocalChapter=Belgium
|Website=https://github.com/jbelien/
|Languages=French; English; Dutch
|Info=I'm a Web Developer from Brussels.

I work as employee in a small company from Laeken (Brussels) named GEO-6 since 2005.
We mainly develop web applications using web mapping.
At first we used our own MapServer (developed by a former employee - running under Windows to display MapInfo files) with our own JavaScript library to display and interact with the map. Yes, we totally reinvented the wheel ... not very clever I agree.

In 2013, we finally decided to switch from Windows to Linux and switch from our custom map applications (difficult to maintain) to open-source solutions. We choose to use OSGeo MapServer, Leaflet JS Library and the power of GDAL library. Very (VERY) happy to have switched even if today I regret to have chosen Leaflet over OpenLayers (which seemed a little bit "old") and so currently (slowly) migrating from Leaflet to OpenLayers 3.

I also work as Freelance Web Developer on my spare time. Also in web development but not "limited" to web mapping applications.

I'm an OpenStreetMap member since 2012 but did my first real contribution last Saturday (not very proud about having waited 4 years to finally contribute) : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien
}}

{{OSGeo Experience
|User=Yes
|Committee=No
|Board=No
|Coder=No
|Translate=No
|PSC=No
|ExBoard=No
|Charter=No
|Chair=No
|SolKatz=No
|Committer=No
}}

;Profile last updated: 21 04 2016

[[Category: OSGeo Member]]