Monthly Archives: June 2009

Spherical Mercator Maps in OpenLayers 2.8

Posted on 2009-06-25 by Ollie

Following on from my previous post, it is indeed much easier to put Spherical Mercator “Google-style” maps into OpenLayers, following the 2.8 release this week. Spherical Mercator is a pseudo-spatial reference system (SRS) that takes some liberties with strict geographic … Continue reading →

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OpenLayers New Release

Posted on 2009-06-24 by Ollie

OpenLayers, the open source Javascript framework for delivering powerful “slippy” maps via your web browser, has just had a new version released – 2.8. It’s the first release since September last year and is brimming with new features and bug … Continue reading →

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OSGIS UK Conference

Posted on 2009-06-23 by Ollie

I was on a very early train on Monday morning, to attend the First OSGIS UK Conference at Nottingham University, hosted by the Centre for Geospatial Science there. Thanks to the the very tight schedule (speakers generally only had 15 … Continue reading →

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Open Source GIS is from Mars, OpenStreetMap is from Venus?

Posted on 2009-06-15 by Ollie

I’m going to a couple of conferences in the next few weeks – the 1st Open Source GIS UK (OSGIS UK) conference at Nottingham University, and State of the Map 2009, the 3rd OpenStreetMap conference in Amsterdam. On the face … Continue reading →

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