OpenLayers Tutorial Part III – Controls. Tutorial covering OpenLayers Controls, various examples and sample code, including styling controls with CSS, placing controls outside the map in panels, and more.
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OpenLayers Tutorial – Part 2 – Layers
OpenLayers Tutorial Part II – Tutorial covering OpenLayers Layers, including how it works on the backend, WMS, Vector layers, Google Maps and OpenLayer mashup instructions, and other Layer object related concepts.
OpenLayers Tutorial – Part I – Introduction
Tutorial Introducing OpenLayers, covering the basics of creating a map and populating it with a single layer.
Creating a dragable, dropable, resizbleable div in javascript using MooTools
Warning:This code and post is extensively commented and very descriptive. It’s geared towards newer JS programmers to help them grasp the concepts.
If you know what you’re doing just Download Drag / Drop / Resize Source
An implementation can be found at http://olarchitect.com and the source is available at
http://olarchitect.com/scripts/dragdrop.js
There are many ways to create moveable, resizable, [...]
Controls and Panels
Overview – OpenLayers Architect recent progress – Implemented control / panel integration
One of the biggest problems I encountered while working on the controls was that some controls belong to panels and some are independent. My first step was to determine what controls would not go inside a panel (for example, the overview map). I stored [...]
OLArchitect Theme Concept
I’m going to discuss briefly my thoughts on OLArchitect’s Theme / CSS system. I have not yet finished the control and panel configuration completely (but I have finished the configuration of all the basic controls), but I am far exceeding my expectations so far. My current progress occasionally encourages me to consider how I am [...]
The time is neigh!
I’ve made a lot of progress abstracting out OL Architect and I’ve come up with a more extensive and detailed roadmap. After seeing how incredibly useful OLON will be, I’ve revised my original plan a bit to incorporate it and updated some of the project’s goals.
My original plan was the following:
Project Roadmap
Step 1. Collect Underpants
Step [...]
Application accepted!
Well, I got into GSoC so I might as well start updating this . I’ll be working on a web app that will generate OpenLayer maps on the fly based on user specifications. I plan to start coding in a couple weeks, but first I plan to decide exactly how I am going [...]

