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I've done a few OpenLayers project since starting this page as a place holder 2 years ago.
I've done a few OpenLayers project since starting this page as a place holder 2 years ago.
Information about them (and more about OpenLayers) is scattered around the Wildsong web site.
Information about them (and therefore OpenLayers) is scattered around the Wildsong web site.
Search for OpenLayers.


== What is OpenLayers? ==
== What is OpenLayers? ==
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Docs for programmers: http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers-js.html
Docs for programmers: http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers-js.html


OpenLayers is very stable code. It has been at version 2.x as long as I have used it.  
OpenLayers is very stable code. Version 4 was recently released. It supports tiled raster and vector layers. It supports editing.
Version 3 has been a long time coming, we await anxiously.
It seems to support everything that I want to do.


== Books ==
== Books ==
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OpenLayers is so popular in fact that there are even books about it.
OpenLayers is so popular in fact that there are even books about it.
And it is so stable that even a book release two years ago is very useful.
And it is so stable that even a book release two years ago is very useful.
I removed all the books I had listed here because they were all more than 2 years old. :-) You can look in the History tab if you really want.


[http://packtpubs.com PacktPubs] has a book called
[http://www.packtpub.com/openlayers-2-1-javascript-web-mapping-library-beginners-guide/book OpenLayers 2.10: A Beginner's Guide] (2011)
and it is how I got started with OpenLayers.
The author Erik Hazzard has a page about his book is here: http://vasir.net/openlayers_book
I see they also have a book call the [http://www.packtpub.com/openlayers-create-gis-web-applications-cookbook/bookOpenLayers Cookbook] (2012) that I should really check out.
I also have a copy of the new PacktPubs short book. [http://www.packtpub.com/openlayers-webmaping-starter/book Instant OpenLayers Starter]
They have published over 100 of these "instant" books so far this year. 2013
I am going to start a separate page with a [[Review of Instant OpenLayers Starter]]
[[Category: OpenLayers]]
[[Category: GIS]]
[[Category: GIS]]

Revision as of 22:53, 11 April 2017

I've done a few OpenLayers project since starting this page as a place holder 2 years ago. Information about them (and therefore OpenLayers) is scattered around the Wildsong web site. Search for OpenLayers.

What is OpenLayers?

OpenLayers (http://openlayers.org/) is a library of Javascript code that you download and put on your Web server. You reference it from your own HTML and Javascript based pages, to put maps into your web site.

Docs for programmers: http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers-js.html

OpenLayers is very stable code. Version 4 was recently released. It supports tiled raster and vector layers. It supports editing. It seems to support everything that I want to do.

Books

OpenLayers is so popular in fact that there are even books about it. And it is so stable that even a book release two years ago is very useful. I removed all the books I had listed here because they were all more than 2 years old. :-) You can look in the History tab if you really want.

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