OpenLayers: Free Maps for the Web

12 Oct
2009


OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a (still-developing) JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference — OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.

OpenLayers is a project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

Furthermore, OpenLayers implements industry-standard methods for geographic data access, such as the OpenGIS Consortiums Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) protocols. Under the hood, OpenLayers is written in object-oriented JavaScript, using components from Prototype.js and the Rico library.
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1 Response to OpenLayers: Free Maps for the Web

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pv2Admin

September 23rd, 2010 at 7:50 am

Do you want to see what you can do with openlayers?. Visit http://pv2.homelinux.com, and you can see some functionalities of this API working….

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