LAU Viewer

A comparison of Local Administrative Units (LAU) map viewers showing different statistical datasets.

Project Structure

• /maplibre: MapLibre GL JS viewer with a 3D Globe projection (EPSG:3857 basemap).
• /openlayers: OpenLayers viewer using the standard European equal-area projection EPSG:3035 (ETRS89-LAEA).
• /vectortiles: scripts for generating vector tiles of LAU datasets.

How to Run Locally

You can serve this project using any static file server. The quickest way is using Node's serve package:

# Serve the root directory
npx serve ./ --cors

# Or using Python's built-in HTTP server
python -m http.server 8000

Once running, navigate to:

• MapLibre: http://localhost:3000/maplibre/index.html (or port 8000 for Python)
• OpenLayers: http://localhost:3000/openlayers/index.html (or port 8000 for Python)