OpenLayers Blog

Several OpenLayers developers and volunteers gathered after the FOSS4G conference to participate in the Saturday code sprint. And guess what: a lot was accomplished! Here is a quick overview:

Mike Adair (DM Solutions) and Julien Lacroix (Mapgears) finished Mike’s work on a graticule control, which also brings label positioning and a utility function to format coordinates
Julien […]

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We’ve seen a good bit of OpenLayers activity at the conference so far.  Last night, a crowd of 25 or so gathered at the OpenLayers Birds of a Feather session.  It was a good opportunity to hear how people were using the library in their applications.  We got plenty of suggestions on ways to improve […]

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If you’re planning a trip to Sydney this year for FOSS4G, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to hear about OpenLayers in presentations and workshops.
Presentations (that mention OpenLayers in the abstract)

Maptivism: GIS for the People!
MapTiler: map publishing a la Google Maps
OCEAN Toolkit: Incorporating Local Knowledge into Marine Spatial Planning
Comparing apples and oranges: Uncovering the mystery of […]

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We had a good time in Cape Town putting on an OpenLayers intro workshop.  The 3 hour session was well attended, and very well supported by OpenLayers developers.  Thanks to those who participated and especially to all the developers that came to help out.
I have made the workshop documents available - and am looking forward […]

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The Where 2.0 Preliminary Agenda has been published: avid users of OpenLayers will notice The Open Geo-Stack: OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS available as a half day Tutorial, at 1:30pm Monday, 05/12/2008:
An open geo-stack offers a flexible and feature filled solution for your web mapping needs. Store your data with PostGIS, set up GeoServer to publish it, […]

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Based on past experience with releases, it seems like the 2.5 release may be imminent: If we don’t receive any bug reports by the start of the FOSS4G conference on Tuesday, my hope is that the PSC will decide that the time has come to release the software as a final version.
I’m excited about this […]

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