OpenLayers

OpenLayers

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source.

OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference – OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.

Open Source, Open Standards

OpenLayers is open source software, released under the GNU General Public License, that implements the Open Geospatial Consortium’s “Simple Features for SQL Specification”. OpenLayers also works well as a data source for GeoServer, which provides services like WMS,WFS, WCS, and WPS.

Never used OpenLayers before? Want to start writing some code? Check out the NewToOpenLayers page!

Check out the documentation.

View the List of Examples -- showing tons of different ways of using OpenLayers.

See what others have done: User Recipes or the OpenLayers Gallery.

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