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Put an open map widget in any web page!

Books about OpenLayers

OpenLayers is a project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation.

Visit our sponsorship page to find out how you can become an OpenLayers sponsor.

We welcome contributions of any size. If you're interested in supporting OpenLayers development, you can also use our Gittip account:

OpenLayers: Free Maps for the Web

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About 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 has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under the 2-clause BSD License (also known as the FreeBSD).

Toward OpenLayers 3!

We've begun the development effort to make the next major version of OpenLayers a reality. OpenLayers 3 is a comprehensive rewrite of the library, targeting the latest in HTML5 and CSS3 features. The library will continue to have broad support for projections, standard protocols, and editing functionality from OpenLayers 2.x. The new version of the library will focus on performance improvements, lighter builds, prettier visual components, an improved API, and more. Some of the major highlights are:

If you’ve used OpenLayers in the past, if you’re using it in production deployments, or if you may use it in the future, please consider contributing to our collaborative funding effort. We are aiming to raise $350,000, to fully fund OpenLayers 3.0 in one shot. Contributing right now is the most effective time to help OpenLayers. Kickstarter-style campaign is running at http://www.indiegogo.com/ol3, read our blog post to know more about it. Any amount will help but if you are able to give $5,000 or more we’re offering a number of different ‘perks’ to help make it easier to contribute:

These packages will be delivered by companies employing OpenLayers committers. For more information please email ol3-funding [at] googlegroups.com.

For Developers!

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 APIs, with one important difference -- OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.

Getting the Code

Releases are made available on the downloads page. The code is also available in our Git repository. With a clone of the Git repository, you can keep up with the latest and contribute patches to OpenLayers.

If you don't want to download the code, you can still try some of the hosted examples. If you're familiar with JavaScript, try viewing the source of the examples to get an idea how the OpenLayers library is used.