Google Part
Open Source Now
GMAP API,
Comment Recently Added support contact with Google for georss.
Openlayer . Indeed, openlayer has never been recognized last year and has been added this year.
Osgeo Later, the step was very large, and recently added support for vector editing. kml and georss support is already a highly available open source JS Map Library.
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Original article:
The geowanking mailing list tells us Google has opened parts of the Google Maps API for open source development. From the announcement :"Another
Reason for this open source project is that we 've realized that there
Are using potential extensions for the Google Maps API, but that
Common User still needs a reliable and quick-loading API. Adding custom
Controls/functionality to the core API adds to the file size and forces
Developers wanting to tweak the code to overwrite obfuscated JS
Functions. with this open source project, a developer can include
Using CR into pT file for the specified library they're interested in. They
Can even download a copy of it and tweak it for their use."
Comment:
Time
For a conspiracy theory. Does this seem like an attempt by Google
Maintain their Gmaps dominance by "Stealing" developers from
Openlayers. There has been a lot of great activity going on in
Openlayers community, targetted
GIS Users. It just seems like
Google can't keep up, so they are forced to open up their SCR limit PT Source
To the public... which is not a bad thing per say.
I wonderred why they re-released that kml support announcement in Gmaps
The other day. My suspicion is that they saw the work the openlayers
Team was doing. They probably seen some of the vector editing support
They are adding (which feed back directly into geoserver), and figured
Thats the quickest way to add the support to their Non GIS based API.
On the other hand, you have openlayers (http://www.openlayers.org /)
Which is built around GIS. It has things like native WMS support which
Is huge IMHO.
Vector Editing: http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/editingtoo L Bar.html [openlayers.org]
Basic kml: http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/kml-layer. H TML [openlayers.org]
Web cam hooks: http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/webcam.htm L [Openlayers.org]
WFS vector: http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/wfs-states . HTML [openlayers.org]
Support for Google/ve/Yahoo/Etc .. maps: http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/baseLayers . HTML [openlayers.org]
I have no affiliation with openlayers outside of using it. It's truly a great open API. [reply to this
] Re: Umm openlayers anyone?
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Satri (3)
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Also like openlayers a lot. I wonder if Google and other proprietary
Data providers through APIS cocould somehow stop openlayers from loading
Their tiles?
