OpenLayers Community
About OpenLayers
OpenLayers is a JavaScript library for displaying maps in your browser. Highly extensible, it serves as the foundation of all of our web mapping interfaces. OpenLayers accesses data through industry standards, leaving it free of server-side dependencies. It is released under a BSD-style license.
- Displays data accessed through many standards, including WMS, WFS, KML and more.
- Pluggable controls for everything from "slippy map" behavior to feature editing.
- Styling support for rendering features client-side.
OpenLayers Applications
OpenLayers provides a powerful foundation for web mapping applications like the ones below:
- Styler
- An interactive styling application for geospatial data.
- Community Almanac
- A collaborative community building and story telling application developed for the Orton Foundation.
- GeoView
- A tool for browsing geospatial data on the web.
- Vespucci
- A collaborative mapping tool that takes advantage of GeoServer's versioning capability.
- NYC Building Editor
- A simple demo of GeoServer's versioning ability.
OpenLayers @ OpenGeo
Recent Contributions
OpenGeo funds ongoing development of OpenLayers as part of our larger mission to make public geodata more accessible and usable to civil society. Recent contributions include:
- Major improvements to vector rendering and especially the VML renderer.
- Adding point symbol rotation, support for well known symbols and dashed/dotted lines and borders to the SLD support.
Our OpenLayers Team
Andreas is an active OpenLayers developer and GeoExt steering committee member. He has been working in geospatial for over 15 years, and is a frequent teacher and speaker.
David Winslow is Technical Lead of the GeoNode team. As a committer on GeoTools, GeoServer, and GeoExt, as well as a contributor to OpenLayers, his expertise covers the entire OpenGeo Stack. Before coming to OpenGeo, he worked on biological and ecological research projects using graphics hardware to accelerate analysis.
Tim is an active developer and steering committee member for OpenLayers. Before joining OpenGeo, Tim worked on numerous GIS development projects as a consultant and researcher.
OpenLayers Resources
- OpenLayers Community Site
- OpenLayers Issue Tracker
- OpenLayers Repository
- OpenLayers Documentation
- OpenLayers Workshop
- OpenLayers Chat Room
OpenGeo Services
OpenGeo offers OpenLayers training, including introductory and advanced sessions.
OpenGeo offers OpenLayers core development to add new features to the project.