OpenLayers

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.

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. It has been at version 2.x as long as I have used it. Version 3 has been a long time coming, we await anxiously.

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.

PacktPubs has a book called 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 Cookbook (2012) that I should really check out.

I also have a copy of the new PacktPubs short 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