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The data pipeline behind my Flanders land-use tile map

I recently built a tile map of land use in Flanders, inspired by Bloomberg’s 2018 US land use graphic. Flanders is rendered as a grid of equal-area 2 km squares, each colored by its dominant land-use class, and scrolling through the page morphs the map into a waffle chart where block sizes match the true area of every class. A second view steps through 2013, 2016, 2022 and 2025 so you can watch the land change over twelve years. [read more]