Hey- So, I gave the examples a bit of a facelift (http://trac.openlayers.org/changeset/7095). Based on the work that was started by Josh Livni and others at FOSS4G 07, I updated the script that parses examples and created a new "index" page for examples:
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/ (Thanks to Chris for making this the default view for that dir and creating a nice shell script so that the single file build is used for those examples - http://trac.openlayers.org/changeset/7122.) The hope is that it will be easier for people to find examples relevant to what they want to do with OpenLayers. You can filter the example list by keywords. E.g. http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/?q=wms Now, this is only as useful as we make it. If there are folks who would like to help out, we could still use more/better documentation in these examples. If you follow the convention laid out in the existing examples (element ids for title, tags, shortdesc, and docs), the index page will work. As we get more tags and classes listed in examples, we can update the index page to allow more control in searching for examples. I acknowledge that our class docs are *not* an easy way to learn the library, our tests are usually the *last* thing that developers understand, and nobody has taken any time to write up nice tutorials (though a tutorials directory and basic template would be a nice addition). So, for now, I think people will continue to learn by example. Any help we can get in making these examples more useful would be appreciated. http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/HowToContribute Tim _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
