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. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Features'
Vector Behavior
April 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Vector · Features · Future
Smooth Navigation II (Google Style)
March 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 […]
Tags: Features
Smooth Navigation
March 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: Features
New in OpenLayers 2.5
September 1st, 2007 · 5 Comments
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 […]
Tags: Features