Module 3 - Netherlands

1. downloaded the shp files from http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/dossiers/nederland-regionaal/publicaties/geografische-data/archief/2015/wijk-en-buurtkaart-2014-art.htm

2. Worked on the command line with ogr2ogr*:

• ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" source_maps/wgs84.shp source_maps/shape-2014-versie-1.0/gem_2014.shp -s_srs EPSG:28992 -t_srs EPSG:4326

• ogr2ogr -f "GeoJSON" -lco COORDINATE_PRECISION=6 source_maps/wgs84.geojson source_maps/wgs84.shp

4. Simplified it to ~1% in mapshaper.org

5. retrieved province data from http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/methoden/classificaties/overzicht/gemeentelijke-indeling/2015/default.htm

• terminal commands taken from http://cobr.io/2015/03/how-to-build-a-chloropleth-map-with-leaflet-js-and-a-dash-of-d3-js/