OpenLayers Blog

OpenLayers owes much of its functionality to sandbox innovations in the repository.  At the FOSS4G conference in Sydney, I played a short animation representing commit activity in the OpenLayers trunk.  As a way of acknowledging all of the great work done by sandbox developers, I wanted to post a similar animation that shows sandbox commits […]

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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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We’ve been advancing the editing capabilities of OpenLayers with each release since the initial inclusion of the vector feature rendering in 2.4.  The upcoming 2.8 release will bring two new enhancements that I’m particularly excited about: snapping and splitting.
The snapping example demonstrates some of the configuration options of the snapping agent.  This control can be […]

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Last week, a number of OpenLayers developers gathered in Cambridge, MA to push towards a 2.7 release. Erik Uzureau and Chris Schmidt from MetaCarta hosted. Andreas Hocevar, Sebastian Benthall, Tim Coulter, and I went from the OpenGeo team. Closing tickets against 2.7 was our main objective, and we managed to get a […]

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From the GeoJSON mailing list:
The GeoJSON Authors are proud to announce the finalization of the GeoJSON 1.0 Specification.
Representing more than a year’s worth of community discussion and development, the GeoJSON specification describes an easy to use, extensible format for transferring geographic data over the web. With support in more than 20 different applications, GeoJSON is […]

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Since 2.6 is almost here, I thought it was time to look to the future again. OpenLayers currently packs a lot into its Layer classes. This is handy. It also makes it a bit hard to reuse parts of the library in areas that the original developer might not have anticipated. […]

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If you’ve considered using the Google Layer in OpenLayers but decided against it because of that annoying flicker and weirdly jerky and sluggish drag-panning, have another look. Google started exporting a getDragObject in version 2.93. This was exactly what we needed, and it let us ditch the obfuscated non-API methods that we were […]

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The upcoming 2.6 release will have a couple of nice visual enhancements for map navigation. The first is a map.panTo method which uses easing methods to slide the map to a new center. The second is layer transitions, which (in their current form) resize existing tiles while waiting for new tiles to […]

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After almost two weeks of work on OpenLayers, 2.5 featureset is finally starting to come together: Although we have 22 tickets open, only 3 lack patches, and only 12 are not ready and waiting for code review. Thanks to Tim Schaub and Erik Uzureau for their tireless efforts on this front.
I think Tim might have […]

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