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OpenLayers Sandswarm
OpenLayers owes much of its functionality to sandbox innovations in the repository. At the FOSS4G conference in Sydney, I played a short animation representing commit activity in the OpenLayers trunk. As a way of acknowledging all of the great
OpenLayers at the FOSS4G code sprint
Several OpenLayers developers and volunteers gathered after the FOSS4G conference to participate in the Saturday code sprint. And guess what: a lot was accomplished! Here is a quick overview:
Mike Adair (DM Solutions) and Julien Lacroix
Update from FOSS4G
We’ve seen a good bit of OpenLayers activity at the conference so far. Last night, a crowd of 25 or so gathered at the OpenLayers Birds of a Feather session. It was a good opportunity to hear how people were using the library in their applications. We got plenty of suggestions on ways to improve [...]
OpenLayers Down Under
If you’re planning a trip to Sydney this year for FOSS4G, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to hear about OpenLayers in presentations and workshops.
Presentations (that mention OpenLayers in the abstract)
Maptivism: GIS for the
Snap & Split
We’ve been advancing the editing capabilities of OpenLayers with each release since the initial inclusion of the vector feature rendering in 2.4. The upcoming 2.8 release will bring two new enhancements that I’m particularly excited about:
OpenLayers Holiday Present: Case Studies
Here’s an OpenLayers Holiday Present, for those of you working on getting OpenLayers in more places in your organization:
OpenLayers Case Studies: Examples showing the usage of OpenLayers inside of organizations, and how the use of
GeoConnexion Magazine Article
In the November issue of the GeoConnexion magazine, (”Geo: International”), an article I wrote was published in OSGeo’s Monthly Column, “Open Sources”. The article talks a bit about the history of OpenLayers, and how it came to be developed
OpenLayers Workshop from FOSS4G 2008
We had a good time in Cape Town putting on an OpenLayers intro workshop. The 3 hour session was well attended, and very well supported by OpenLayers developers. Thanks to those who participated and especially to all the developers that came to help out.
I have made the workshop documents available - and am looking forward [...]
Announcing: OpenLayers 2.7 rc1 !
The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce the first release
candidate of OpenLayers 2.7!!
As of 2.7-RC1, the OpenLayers 2.7 release closes 187 outstanding
tickets, split nearly down the middle between bug fixes and
Cambridge Sprint Recap
Last week, a number of OpenLayers developers gathered in Cambridge, MA to push towards a 2.7 release. Erik Uzureau and Chris Schmidt from MetaCarta hosted. Andreas Hocevar, Sebastian Benthall, Tim Coulter, and I went from the OpenGeo team. Closing tickets against 2.7 was our main objective, and we managed to get a [...]