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How to use free OpenStreetMap Belgium baselayer

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It is quite easy and it’s completely free!
We just ask you to use the required credits/attributions : OpenStreetMap contributors for the data and SPRL GEO-6 BVBA for the tiles hosting.

You can have a look at our baselayer here : https://tile.openstreetmap.be/

Here are 2 examples using the most common open-source JavaScript libraries (Leaflet and OpenLayers).
If you’re not familiar to those libraries, have a look at “How to create a simple map (with a marker) based on OpenStreetMap ?”.

Our baselayer is available with the default names but also with French or Dutch only names (if available):

  • To use French only names, use https://tile.openstreetmap.be/osmbe-fr/{z}/{x}/{y}.png (osmbe-fr instead of osmbe in following examples) ;
  • To use Dutch only names, use https://tile.openstreetmap.be/osmbe-nl/{z}/{x}/{y}.png (osmbe-nl instead of osmbe in following examples) ;

If you’re using Leaflet:

1var map = L.map('map').setView([0, 0], 2);
2
3L.tileLayer('https://tile.openstreetmap.be/osmbe/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
4  attribution:
5    '&copy; <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors' +
6    ', Tiles courtesy of <a href="https://geo6.be/">GEO-6</a>',
7  maxZoom: 18
8}).addTo(map);

If you’re using OpenLayers:

 1var attribution = new ol.control.Attribution({
 2  collapsible: false
 3});
 4
 5var map = new ol.Map({
 6  controls: ol.control.defaults({attribution: false}).extend([attribution]),
 7  layers: [
 8    new ol.layer.Tile({
 9      source: new ol.source.OSM({
10        url: 'https://tile.openstreetmap.be/osmbe/{z}/{x}/{y}.png',
11        attributions: [ ol.source.OSM.ATTRIBUTION, 'Tiles courtesy of <a href="https://geo6.be/">GEO-6</a>' ],
12        maxZoom: 18
13      })
14    })
15  ],
16  target: 'map',
17  view: new ol.View({
18    center: [0, 0],
19    maxZoom: 18,
20    zoom: 2
21  })
22});