OpenLayers Report 2007
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OpenLayers
- Period covered by report: Jan-Dec 2007
- Contact name: Chris Schmidt and Erik Uzureau
Key Accomplishments
- Graduated from OSGeo incubation
- Three major releases in 2007
- 2.3: Bugfix release 2.2, improvements in tile handling, added support for TMS
- 2.4: Major release adding vector drawing support, improved event handling framework, many editing controls
- 2.5: Support for more formats: KML, GeoRSS, GeoJSON, additional vectorization tools, better third party api integration, improved developer documentation
- Many many new contributors: 250+ on developers list, 550+ on users list, over 110 users signed up for Trac accounts
- Integration into existing toolkits: MapBuilder now uses OpenLayers for rendering, camptocamp MapFish library does the same
- Many commercial deployments of OpenLayers
Areas for Improvement
- any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help
Opportunities to Help
- list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report
Outlook for 2008
- this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2008 :)