OpenLayers

In today's world, OpenLayers has become a topic of great relevance and interest to a large number of people. Its impact is seen in different aspects of daily life, from technology to culture and society. As OpenLayers continues to evolve and take on new forms, it is crucial to analyze its influence and understand its role in our ever-changing world. In this article, we will explore different aspects of OpenLayers, from its origins to its current impact, with the aim of providing a comprehensive view of this phenomenon and its relevance today.

OpenLayers
Original author(s)MetaCarta
Developer(s)The OpenLayers Dev Team
Initial releaseJune 26, 2006 (2006-06-26)
Stable release
10.4.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 29 January 2025 (29 January 2025)
Repository
Written inJavaScript
PlatformWeb browser
TypeWeb mapping
LicenseFreeBSD
Websiteopenlayers.org

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.[2]

Features

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

The library was originally based on the Prototype JavaScript Framework.

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 has been an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ "Release 10.4.0". 29 January 2025. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
  2. ^ "OpenLayers: Home". Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  3. ^ "History – OpenLayers 2". Archived from the original on 2007-10-18.
  4. ^ "Conferences Header - ML Redesign".
  5. ^ "OpenLayers Achève sa Phase d'Incubation - OSGeo.org". Archived from the original on 2009-03-31. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
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