OpenLayers is an BSD-licensed pure JavaScript API for building map applications on the Web. OpenLayers offer offers the ability to display a number of different types of data in a configurable mapping interface.
On behalf of the OpenLayers development team, I have the honor and pleasure of presenting version 1.0 of OpenLayers. 1.0 Release API URL: http://openlayers.org/api/1.0/OpenLayers.js Latest Stable API URL: http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js 1.0 Release Tarball: http://openlayers.org/download/OpenLayers-1.0.tar.gz You can see some example OpenLayers applications here: http://openlayers.org/gallery/ The 1.0 release includes support for display of: * Markers * Popups * Tiled WMS Images * WFS Results (as points) * Textual (tab-seperated) data Development continues at a fast pace. Currently, the development branch of OpenLayers supports: * ka-Map data * WorldWind data * Untiled WMS Requests * GeoRSS data Our next release will support drawing and reprojection of vector data on to: * Google Maps * Yahoo Maps * Microsoft Virtual Earth One of the many goals of OpenLayers is to allow users to use one API, and one look and feel, but display data from any source. To that end, we have created a system which allows for any data provider to create their own layers to be displayed alongside any others in OpenLayers. The API is inspired by the Google Maps API, designed to make the simple things easy, and the difficult things possible. Development of OpenLayers is currently funded in part by MetaCarta: http://www.metacarta.com/ Please give OpenLayers a whirl and let us know what you think! http://openlayers.org/ SDE _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
