As of today, OpenLayers has a new layer type: OpenLayers.Layer.Bing. “Why that” you may ask, “there is OpenLayers.Layer.VirtualEarth already”. So why is this new layer type so special? It is the first time that we access tiles from a commercial service directly. Others (e.g. Google Maps) do not provide direct access to their tiles, but [...]
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Bing Tiles for OpenLayers
December 18th, 2010 · 16 Comments
Google Maps V3 for OpenLayers
July 10th, 2010 · 68 Comments
As of today, the OpenLayers development version supports Google layers served by the Google Maps V3 API. This is not only Google’s latest and greatest Maps API, it also makes life easier on the OpenLayers side because no API key is required. To use the new Google layer, application developers just have to include this [...]
OpenLayers 3 on GitHub
June 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment
In recent discussion on the OpenLayers development list, we decided to start working towards the next major version of OpenLayers. During a subsequent meeting on irc, we chose to use git for working towards v3 and are hosting a central repository on GitHub. Anyone interested in helping us in the OpenLayers 3 effort is encouraged [...]
OpenLayers at the FOSS4G code sprint
October 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
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Cambridge Sprint Recap
August 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 handful of cool [...]
Cluster Strategy
June 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Following up on the paging strategy, I’ve put together a cluster strategy as an alternative for managing large numbers of (potentially coincident) features. The cluster strategy intercepts batches of features before they are added to a layer. It caches all features, creates points that represent clusters of features, and sends the clusters to the layer [...]
Paging Strategy
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
In a previous post, I wrote a bit about how we were starting to improve vector layer behavior. That work has been chugging along in a couple sandboxes. We had a dev talk some time ago about allowing multiple strategies on a single layer. Today I put together an implementation of that idea with a [...]
Vector Behavior
April 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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. We’ve been improving on [...]