OpenLayers

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.

I just bought OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook and I am going through it. Yes.. OL 4.x is out, but the big break was 2->3, 3->4 is a smaller jump and there aren't books on 4 yet.