Examples of OpenLayers applications

Maps

•  Nebraska TNTMap - features  Builder for WMS layers and Extensions to Open Layers (ex. layer switcher with legend images)
  
  
•  Creative Commons donor map - uses the "basic" layer based on vmap0 and a self-hosted tilecache to show the cities of recent donors to Creative Commons. It uses a trivial hack of the MapViewerService plus a custom icon. OpenLayers lets us highlight our friends without resorting to non-free software.
  
  
•  GODIVA - Displaying ocean and climate forecast data features gradient legends and translucent overlay control and get feature info
  
  
•  OpenPlans GeoServer Demo - A sample of  GeoServer's capabilities, showing full TIGER census dataset, along with GNIS place names and VMAP0 country polygon. Brought to you by  The Open Planning Project
  
  
•  Great Lakes Maps -  The Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN) is a partnership that provides one place online for people to find information relating to the binational Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region of North America.
  
  
•  Mars Explorer - Use OpenLayers to browse maps of mars. Brought to you by  http://www.yunnanexplorer.com
  
  
•  OpenGéoPortail - Browse French Geo-Data on top of Google maps layers. Brought to you by Nicolas BOZON.
  
  
•  Larson Group Real Estate - Browse real estate listings in the Brainerd, MN area
  
  
•  California Fire Hazard Severity Zones - legend, one-click queries, geocoding
  
  
•  European "Night at the Museum" Site - View museums accross europe which are participating in the project
  
  
•  aniwai.com - Travel-related site that shows its data on Google maps as clustered markers
  
  
•  Dutch Directorate for Public Works and Water Management - Used by the government agency to disseminate geo-information on road and water works.
  
  
•  Routing in OpenLayers - Boston Freemap project with an example of the application of the  pgRouting application.
  
  
•  Routing in Toronto - Cool maps of Toronto city with great GUI for pgRouting.
  
  
•  Irrigation Southern Portugal - Inventory of small private irrigation farmers (Inventário de Pequenos Regadios do Alentejo). ArcIMS and OpenLayers. ArcIMS serves WMS base layer through TileCache.
  
  

Non-Map Browsing

•  Fractals - Exploration of the Mandelbrot fractal.
  
  
•  Genomes - One dimensional genome visualization (and navigation) application from Berkeley.
  
  
•  Photos - Brugge Panorama: Andrew Larcombe's example of using OpenLayers to browse a digital image (as WMS layer).
  
  

Academic References

•  Smart Map Browsing - Thesis by Emanuel Schütze on Smart Map Browsing, with focus on OpenLayers.
  
  
•  AgA Presentation - OpenLayers: Data Integration in an Open Source Map Browser Presentation by Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Behr of Stuttgart.