OpenLayers
JavaScript library for web mapping applications
OpenLayers is a JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers as slippy maps. It provides an API for building rich web-based geographic applications similar to Google Maps and Bing Maps.
It is open-source, provided under the 2-clause BSD License.
01Features
OpenLayers supports GeoRSS, KML (Keyhole Markup Language), Geography Markup Language (GML), GeoJSON and map data from any source using OGC-standards as Web Map Service (WMS) or Web Feature Service (WFS).
02History
The library was originally based on the Prototype JavaScript Framework.
OpenLayers was created by MetaCarta after the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference of June 29-30, 2005, and released as open source software before the Where 2.0 conference of June 13-14, 2006, by MetaCarta Labs. Two other open-source mapping tools released by MetaCarta are FeatureServer and TileCache. Since November 2007, OpenLayers has been an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project.
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “OpenLayers”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- GeoServer GeoNetwork with web app.svg by GeoServer_GeoNetwork_with_web_app.png: SEWilco derivative work: Andrew Shadura (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
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