<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi everyone,<br><br></div>Very happy to join you.<br></div>I
probably met some of you yesterday at OSGeoDevEvening (very nice by the
way) and Moritz last Saturday at Missing Maps Mapathon (also very
nice).<br><br></div>I'm a Web Developer from Brussels.<br><br></div>I work as employee in a small company from Laeken (Brussels) named GEO-6 since 2005.<br></div>We mainly develop web applications using web mapping.<br></div>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.<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>I also work as Freelance Web Developer on my spare time. Also in web development but not "limited" to web mapping applications.<br><br></div>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) : <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jbelien</a><br><br></div>Small publicity on a personnal project : <a href="https://github.com/jbelien/MapFile-PHP-Library">https://github.com/jbelien/MapFile-PHP-Library</a> (Library to read/write MapServer mapfile using PHP).<br><br></div>As I said to Moritz and Marc, I will gladly help if you need me (whatever the help needed).<br><br></div>Great evening to everyone.<br></div>See you soon.<br></div><br>Jonathan Beliƫn<br></div>@jbelien<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>