• Homepage "OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the BSD License."
  • Reason: Layers of all kinds in one interface (gallery/multiple.html)
  • in development for > 1 year
  • More than 2 dozen contributors (authors.txt)
    • camptocamp
    • DM Solutions
    • LisaSoft
  • Pursuing OSGeo incubation
• New release: 2.4
  • Vector display
  • Editing tools
  • SVG/VML based
  • support for IE5.5+, FF1.5+, Opera8+, Webkit nightlies (hopefully in next version of Safari)
• Tools around OpenLayers:
  • TileCache
  • FeatureServer
    • Labs on a Stick
• Uses of OpenLayers
  • Non-profit:  http://mumbai.freemap.in/
  • Free mapping:  http://www.openstreetmap.org/
  • Historical data:  http://icon.stoa.org/pleiades-beta/Members/ol_map_view
  • Commercial:
    • Geographic text search:  http://crschmidt.net:8075/docs/geosearch.html
    • Gaming: Warwide:  http://v1itaw01.warwide.com/game.php?usid=1875576566051578
    • Mapping Data Sales:  http://dev.terrapages.net/abs-mapping/
    • Real Estate (bitner's example)
    • People's Map:  http://www.peoplesmap.com/

• Competition:
  • 5 USB drives:
    • FeatureServer, OpenLayers, TileCache, GeoSearchCore
    • video presentations
    • Tile data, so demos work without internet
  • First five demos on the web including at least one image layer (WMS, Google, etc.) with at least one non-image layer (GeoRSS, Markers, WFS, KML)
  • Email mailing list http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users with URL