Flow mapping with Arabesque 2

Author

Françoise Bahoken

Published

June 5, 2025

Welcome !

This is the Flow mapping with Arabesque 2 online home book.

Arabesque is funded by the french Université Gustave Eiffel. It is part of the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) movement. It is a web application dedicated to flow mapping from origin-destination matrices and spatial networks datasets.

This books presents the functionnalities and how Arabesque 2 can be used to draw flowmaps.

It will be progressively updated following Arabesque 2 current development.

On line version of Arabesque can be accessed here: arabesque.univ-eiffel.fr
The development version (the most complete) can be accessed here: ./dev-arabesque

Summary

Arabesque is dedicated to flow and network mapping, from origin-destination simple or complexes matrices. Arabesque allows users to filter flow data sets (nodes, links and flow values), to play with geographic context (add tiles), reprojecting geography and to parameterise the semiology of the drawings.

Built in javascript and HTML 5, Arabesque provides a full toolset to explore, filter and geovisualize your Origin-Destination matrices. It allows also to build clearer and understandable flow maps that respect the principles of contemporary cartographic semiology.

About

This book is reproducible and generated in R with Quarto.
Feel free to help us make it better and report any issue on GitHub.

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Licence

This work by the geographic flow vizualisation research team is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.