Flow mapping with Arabesque 2

Author

Françoise Bahoken

Published

June 18, 2025

Welcome !

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

Arabesque is funded by the french Université Gustave Eiffel. 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 data sets. See the gallery to see examples of flow maps created with Arabesque).

This books presents the functionality and how Arabesque can be used to draw flow maps. it will be progressively updated following its current development.

Summary

Arabesque is dedicated to flow and network mapping, from origin-destination simple or complexes matrices. Arabesque allows users to set parameters for statistical information by filtering the flow data sets (nodes, links and flow values) ; to configure the geographical information, on the one hand, to add a geographical context (add tiles or layers), to re-project world maps, and on the other hand, to draw the edges and nodes, parameterise their geometry and their graphical semiology.

Built in javascript and HTML 5, Arabesque provides a full tool set 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.

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About this book

This book is reproducible and generated in R with Quarto. It is automatically update via Github actions

Want to contribute ?

Any one can contribute to make this better. So feel free to contribute and report any issue on the arabesque2-doc repo. You need a github account to be able to edit the pages.

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Licence

Creative Commons License
This work by the geographic flow vizualisation research team (See authors & contributors) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.