OpenLayers

OpenLayers Resources

OpenGeo Services

OpenGeo offers OpenLayers training, including introductory and advanced sessions, as well as OpenLayers core development to add new features to the project.

Our OpenLayers Team

Sam Smith

Sam Smith

Samuel has worn multiple hats during his 12-year affair with spatial technologies: user, print cartographer, web-mapper, integrator, scripter/programmer, trainer, analyst, manager.

David Winslow

David Winslow

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.

Bart van den Eijnden

Bart van den Eijnden

Bart helps to develop OpenLayers and GeoExt, and has a strong interest in open standards.

About OpenLayers

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.

  • Overlay multiple standards-compliant map layers into a single application
  • Displays tiles/images from WMS, WMTS, TMS, WMS-C, WMTS, Google Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, OpenStreetMap, ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS
  • Vector feature rendering and styling with support for KML, GeoJSON, WKT, GML, WFS, GeoRSS
  • Web-based editing, including feature snapping and splitting, via WFS-Transactional (WFS-T) leveraging SVG or VML
  • Pluggable with any JavaScript toolkit (JQuery, Ext, Dojo, MooTools)
  • Client side map reprojection
  • Feature clustering and paging

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.