OpenLayers Blog

We’re excited about Erik Hazzard’s new book on OpenLayers. We also wanted to promote Till Adams and Marc Jansen’s German OpenLayers book. Both are now featured on the OpenLayers homepage: http://openlayers.org/ In addition, I’ve added a small donation button at the bottom of the page. Financial contributions to OpenLayers support both the OSGeo foundation and [...]

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Three of us, here at Camptocamp, sprinted three days on OpenLayers. Our goal was two-fold: close tickets for the upcoming 2.11 release, and improve our mobile story, following up on the work done during the mobile sprint (see the previous posts on this blog). Day #1 We started out by reviewing patches, and closing tickets, [...]

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Here’s an OpenLayers Holiday Present, for those of you working on getting OpenLayers in more places in your organization: OpenLayers Case Studies: Examples showing the usage of OpenLayers inside of organizations, and how the use of OpenLayers has helped that organization. Currently, the number of case studies is small, but we’re working on growing these [...]

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In the November issue of the GeoConnexion magazine, (“Geo: International”), an article I wrote was published in OSGeo’s Monthly Column, “Open Sources”. The article talks a bit about the history of OpenLayers, and how it came to be developed the way it did: OpenLayers was the first mapping framework to make an explicit statement that [...]

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The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce the first release candidate of OpenLayers 2.7!! As of 2.7-RC1, the OpenLayers 2.7 release closes 187 outstanding tickets, split nearly down the middle between bug fixes and new features. Although this ticket count is less than previous releases, the 2.7 release is the first release which has [...]

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A post yesterday from Steven Ottens on the Community MapBuilder website announced the retirement of the MapBuilder project. Citing increased competition and development, specifically from projects like OpenLayers, they have made the decision to call the 1.5 release the final stable release for the project. As mentioned in the post, a meeting at the FOSS4G2006 [...]

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With a bunch of work from Tim, and a little bit of serverside admin cleanup on my part, I’m proud to announce that as of today, the OpenLayers Examples are a lot nicer. Improvements include: Shiny UI for browsing the examples, including keyword search Improved consistency of display of examples Changing the examples on the [...]

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The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce release of OpenLayers 2.6. As of this final release, the OpenLayers 2.6 release closes 294 outstanding tickets. This is the largest of any OpenLayers release to date. This release features a number of major developments, including: Integration of the CloudAmber “Google Like” popups for advanced visual display [...]

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OSGeo announced yesterday that it had been accepted to the Summer of Code project from Google: OSGeo is pleased to announce that Google has accepted OSGeo as mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008 program. This program provides funding for students to work on open source projects under the support of experienced mentors. [...]

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Last week, The Open Planning Project graciously hosted a two day OpenLayers sprint in their New York office. Chris Schmidt and Erik Uzureau (of MetaCarta) came down from Boston, Andreas Hocevar crossed the Atlantic to join us from Austria, I (Tim Schaub) dug my way out of my Northern Rockies bunker, and a few of [...]

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