OpenLayers Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Zooming User Interface (ZUI)

  You probably know this, but in Google Maps at least, you can use browser zoom (ctrl/cmd +/-) to change the size of labels without zooming into the actual map. ------ Speaking of maps, I got to work a fun zoom project a few years ago: https://map.fieldmuseum.org/ We used https://openlayers.org/ and thought long and hard about how to best handle zooming and variable levels of information density & visual hierarchy.... - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• Handling files in enterprise web solutions

  In order to display the GeoJSON features on a map, we will use OpenLayers, which is a very powerful open-source mapping library that is also very simple to use. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• 5 JavaScript mapping APIs compared

  OpenLayers is a modular, high-performance library designed for displaying and interacting with maps and geospatial data. It is a free, open-source JS library released under the 2-Clause BSD License, facilitating the creation of interactive and feature-rich web maps. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• I'm a senior in my CS major and it's incredible I didn't hear about GIS projects until now. Glad to be here.

  For web maps I'd strongly recommend using OpenLayers. While it's less convenient to get started with compared to the alternatives it's also much more feature-complete and you'll likely hit a ceiling in terms of functionality much later than you would with the others. Source: 11 months ago

• Show HN: Test, fix, and improve your ML models

  Tought this was about https://openlayers.org/, got confused for a moment. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• What do Jr Devs who get hired ACTUALLY know these days? And how proficient are they?

  Sticking with the roofing theme, you could make an application that shows shingle delivery truck drivers their stops on a map. It would be cool if the user could click on the stop and move it through varying statuses such as pending, en-route, completed or canceled, view the items in the order, and have it send your user a message when the statuses change. It might also be kinda cool if you could allow the... Source: over 1 year ago

• Amazon Location Service and AWS Amplify to Use Various Map Library

  I will build a location-based application using and comparing three open-source map libraries: MapLibre GL JS, OpenLayers, and Leaflet. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap

  Seems like MapTiler is maintaining an open source full stack vector alternative, and OpenLayers[0] looks good as well, so maybe it's time for legacy libraries to add vector support, or for users to switch libraries? There's even bindings from Maplibre GL to Leaflet [1]. I at least would find it interesting to see the two compared by someone other than me ;). [0] https://openlayers.org/ [1]... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Driving heat map through vehicle telematics

  If you decide to go the web based route; openlayers is a pretty solid library for doing maps on the web and has support for building custom controls like the route toggle you describe. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there an android app that I can make zoom this much into a map. In a way taht I can have a whole country that I can zoom in until I reach a single room? And that would be able to handle several locations?

  There's libraries to serve images google-maps style , like leaflet, openlayers, OpenSeadragon to name just a few. They aren't as smooth as the video you show, and you have to prepare the images. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How to show the user it's location in your website

  OpenLayers is a JS library makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page , is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the 2-clause BSD License (also known as the FreeBSD). - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• [Remote] Open Source Web Map Developer with Colorado State University / National Park Service

  We're looking to expand our team that develops the National Park Service web maps. We have some big upgrades planned, and we need someone who can help with JavaScript/TypeScript, Leaflet/Mapbox-gl-js/Maplibre-gl-js/OpenLayers, and other cool FOSS4G tools. We are fully remote, but USA only. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Open Source Interactive Web Map creation?

  I like openlayer. I think a lot of web mapping libraries are aimed at front end web devs and so a lot of concepts are simplified or just different. Source: about 2 years ago

• New Offline App Suggestions

  Based on your stated experience, it sounds like you are on the right track. I think a Geoserver (plus your Data Store/DB backend) instance referenced by either a Leaflet SPA page or an OpenLayers SPA page since you have some Java (JS?) experience and sounds like you're interested in building something the way you want it. Source: about 2 years ago

• Custom Map Software for Tiles

  I have made some tests with JOSM and OpenLayers but my big problem is that I could not find a way to draw a "custom earth" (maybe the software is not intended to work that way). Source: about 2 years ago

• Best library for maps and highlighting roads?

  Leaflet and Open Layers are pretty great for simple web maps. Source: about 2 years ago

• Keystone.js custom fields: map component

  Fortunately we don’t have to build everything from scratch. Most of the heavy lifting will be handled by OpenLayers library. There are many NPM packages handling maps, but the most important advantage of this one is great and complete documentation (most parts). So first we have to add it to our Keystone project:. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Want to build web app of map of places in country.

  The main library it uses is https://openlayers.org/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Sharing Geospatial Data with OGC API, pygeoapi and MongoDB

  Making your geospatial dataset available on the web using a standard, unlocks a world of possibilities. It means that many existing (or future) client applications will be able to read your data, out-of-the-box. For instance, anyone can use QGIS, Esri ArcGIS, React-leaflet, OpenLayers or Python OWSlib to pull your data and analyse it, or create products or services on top of it. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Getting to the bottom of web map performance

  Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't OpenLayers (https://openlayers.org/) mostly just a client side library for the displaying of maps, much like Leaflet (https://leafletjs.com/)? To have your own tile server, you'd probably want something like OpenMapTiles (https://openmaptiles.org/) or another alternative like Tilemaker (https://tilemaker.org/). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Optimule, a free vehicle routing platform built with Open Route Service

  A shout-out about the mention Open Route Service, which is IMO fantastic. I wrote a small mapping app to do navigation when we moved cross-continent a few years back. I didn't want to have to worry about trying to pull map data over the Internet, since I wasn't certain that I would even have Internet during the journey. I whipped together a small app using map tile data from OSM (great project), got the... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago