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Online Maps with OpenLayers
Course Material
- Syllabus for Online Maps with OpenLayers
- An OpenStreetMap How-To
- OpenLayers Topics
- OpenLayers Walkthrough
- Clickable Icons in OpenLayers
- Chat 17 Feb 2011: Squashing JavaScript Bugs, Grassroots Mapping, Loading maps through JSON or KML
- Adding Dimension: Lines, Shapes, Video, and Drawing
- Maps for Coloring and Highlighting Countries - Chat 24 Feb
- Just in time: OpenLayers Mobile Phone Features
- Tiles, rasters, and vectors: Using different types of layers
- Creating your own tile and vector layers
- Events: changing your map and listening to your users
- Making maps with Google Docs and Fusion Tables
OpenLayers Topics
What people want to know about OpenLayers -- beyond the core topics, what do you want to know? Even better, can you research a topic and write a quick guide for fellow participants?
Here are some topics people have suggested already:
Suggested Topics
- Geolocation
- Map from Google Spreadsheets or Google Fusion Tables
- Map Image Thumbnails
- Mapnik
- Open directions with PgRouting
- QGIS
- ????
- ????
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One vote for QGIS. There is
One vote for QGIS.
There is an online tutorial I haven't tried yet at
http://data.lohud.com/tim/nicar/nicar_gis_main.php
Open layers + Geoserver +
Open layers + Geoserver + OpenStreetMaps data
Geoserver and Open Layers are
Geoserver and Open Layers are a good match
My votes are for Geoserver,
My votes are for Geoserver, PgRouting, and Mapnik.
OpenLayers, integrating data
OpenLayers, integrating data from multiple sources
* OSM
* Public/govt sources such as US Census
* User-defined sources such as a google spreadsheet.
I quote Will proposals!
I quote Will proposals!
I'm curious whether you could
I'm curious whether you could use OpenLayers with a custom made map such as, for example, a detailed interior floorplan of a museum or library.
+1 This is exactly what I
Sean Horgan wrote:
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OpenLayers, integrating data from multiple sources
* OSM
* Public/govt sources such as US Census
* User-defined sources such as a google spreadsheet.
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This is exactly what I want to learn!
I'd also like to learn about
I'd also like to learn about open-source geocoding solutions that let you submit a big chunk of data at once. (Not sure this exists - may be too much of a burden on the servers to be free.)
Could we try to answer this
Could we try to answer this question from DHQuestions: "I saw this post about closing Borders bookstores that lists alternative independent bookstores by state and includes street addresses and website links. What would be the quickest/easiest way to turn the list into a google map? " http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/whats-the-fastest-way-to-map-...