mtl3p

from my inbox. definitely go check out the gallery. specifically gutenkarte. I saw Schuyler and Jo this weekend and he was telling me about it.

They’re trying to make sure that everyone doesn’t give up mapping development just because microsoft, google, and yahoo are offering shiny toys.

Jo Walsh to locative
More options 10:48 am (2½ hours ago)
For those of you looking for an open-standards, open-data oriented alternative to Google Maps with very lightweight install, OpenLayers may be of interest. I keep meaning to mention http://gsmloc.org/ here too, for the cellstumblers / GSM mappers, i know there’s a few.

—– Forwarded message from Schuyler Erle —–

Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:16:27 -0700
From: Schuyler Erle
To: geowanking@lists.burri.to

OpenLayers is an BSD-licensed pure JavaScript API for building map
applications on the Web. OpenLayers offer offers the ability to
display a number of different types of data in a configurable mapping
interface.

On behalf of the OpenLayers development team, I have the honor and
pleasure of presenting version 1.0 of OpenLayers.

1.0 Release API URL: http://openlayers.org/api/1.0/OpenLayers.js
Latest Stable API URL: http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js
1.0 Release Tarball: http://openlayers.org/download/OpenLayers-1.0.tar.gz

You can see some example OpenLayers applications here:

http://openlayers.org/gallery/

The 1.0 release includes support for display of:

* Markers
* Popups
* Tiled WMS Images
* WFS Results (as points)
* Textual (tab-seperated) data

Development continues at a fast pace. Currently, the development
branch of OpenLayers supports:

* ka-Map data
* WorldWind data
* Untiled WMS Requests
* GeoRSS data

Our next release will support drawing and reprojection of vector data on
to:

* Google Maps
* Yahoo Maps
* Microsoft Virtual Earth

One of the many goals of OpenLayers is to allow users to use one API,
and one look and feel, but display data from any source. To that end, we
have created a system which allows for any data provider to create their
own layers to be displayed alongside any others in OpenLayers. The API
is inspired by the Google Maps API, designed to make the simple things
easy, and the difficult things possible.

Development of OpenLayers is currently funded in part by MetaCarta:

http://www.metacarta.com/

Please give OpenLayers a whirl and let us know what you think!

http://openlayers.org/

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