OpenLayers
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| Original author(s) | MetaCarta |
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| Developer(s) | The OpenLayers Dev Team |
| Initial release | June 26, 2006 |
| Stable release | 3.10.1 [1] / October 9, 2015 |
| Written in | JavaScript |
| Platform | Web browser |
| Type | Web mapping |
| License | FreeBSD |
| Website | http://www.openlayers.org/ |
OpenLayers is an open source (provided under the 2-clause BSD License[2]) JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers. It provides an API for building rich web-based geographic applications similar to Google Maps and Bing Maps. The library was originally based on the Prototype JavaScript Framework.
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Features[edit]
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).
History[edit]
OpenLayers was created by MetaCarta after the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference[3] of June 29–30, 2005,[4] 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 is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project.[5]
Notes[edit]
- ^ "OpenLayers 3.10.1 Release Notes". October 9, 2015.
- ^ "OpenLayers: Home". Retrieved 2012.
- ^ History - OpenLayers - Trac
- ^ conferences.oreilly.com - O'Reilly Conferences - Money:Tech, Tools of Change, ETech, GSP West, MySQL Conf, Web 2.0 Expo SF, Where 2.0, RailsConf, GSP East, Velocity, Ubuntu Li...
- ^ OSGeo announce
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