OpenLayers

OpenLayers is developed and supported by a number of organizations around the world.

It has mainly been developed to further the use of geographic information in online apps.

It is a framework which separates map tools from map data so that all the tools can operate on all the data sources.

What is new in this release:

• Removal of ol.FeatureOverlay
• ol.TileCoord changes
• Removal of ol.tilegrid.Zoomify
• Replace ol.View.fitExtent() and ol.View.fitGeometry() with ol.View.fit()
• Change to ol.interaction.Modify

What is new in version 3.5.0:

• Select the uppermost feature.

What is new in version 3.4.0:

• Select the uppermost feature.

What is new in version 3.2.1:

• Select the uppermost feature.

What is new in version 2.12:

• A simple control to add zoom in/out buttons on the map that can be entirely styled using CSS.
• The theme/default directory now includes a mobile-specific CSS file, namely style.mobile.css.
• The geographic and web mercator projections define default values for the maxExtent, and units.

What is new in version 2.11 RC2:

• OpenLayers includes a new protocol implementing the JSONP technique to avoid the Same Origin Policy constraint of Ajax.
• New OpenLayers.Layer.Bing for direct tile access to Bing Maps. It is recommended to use this new layer now instead of OpenLayers.Layer.VirtualEarth.
• We've introduced "Kinetic Dragging" so the map can continue moving after the mouse is released.
• The Canvas renderer now supports hit detection - allowing for point, line, and polygon drawing and editing on devices that don't support SVG/VML.
• The new CQL format allows serializing and deserializing of filters using OGC Common Query Language.

What is new in version 2.10:

• InlineXhtml - adds support for WMS layers with SVG as image format, for SVG enabled browsers.
• Google layer instances with overridden methods may need to be modified, because some methods are now mixed in from OpenLayers.Layer.Google.v2.

Requirements:

• JavaScript enabled on client side