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OpenLayers Holiday Present: Case Studies

December 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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 case […]

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GeoConnexion Magazine Article

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments

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 it […]

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Announcing: OpenLayers 2.7 rc1!

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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 been executed as a
date-based release […]

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MapBuilder Moving On

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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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New and Improved Examples

May 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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 live server to depend […]

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OpenLayers 2.6 Release

April 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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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OpenLayers Summer of Code

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

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. The […]

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NYC Sprint Recap

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Automated Testing

August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

OpenLayers has more than 2100 automated tests.

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MapServer + OpenLayers — in Spanish

April 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Un Mapa de México con OpenLayers y MapServer | hablandodesigs:
Pues he seguido jugando con OpenLayers y he creado un mapa digital de México donde se pueden ver las ortofotos del INEGI, división estatal y municipal. Todo esto en un lapso tal vez de 4 hora contando la instalación de mapserver.
A nice post showing how to […]

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