OpenLayers

About

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.

Running

1. Start apache sudo server apache2 start 2. Open a web browser (Firefox) 3. Go to http://localhost/OpenLayers/ 4. See the examples directory for examples the rest of the files contain the code, images and style sheets that make OpenLayers work. OpenLayers is also inclcuded with several applications on the disc. To see additional examples run Geoserver or Mapserver and pull up some map samples.

More Information

For more examples, code and reference material visit the website www.openlayers.org