{"id":418,"date":"2010-07-21T00:56:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T05:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2010-07-21T00:56:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T05:56:48","slug":"brave-new-world-openlayers-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/418\/brave-new-world-openlayers-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave New World: OpenLayers 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenLayers is approaching the &#8216;Brave New World&#8217; of a major API breakage for the first time since OpenLayers 2.0 in October of 2006. <\/p>\n<p>Things that have changed in OpenLayers since then:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for vector drawing.<\/li>\n<li>The existence of &#8216;spherical mercator&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>reprojection of objects<\/li>\n<li>More than a dozen new layer types<\/li>\n<li>The existence of TileCache, FeatureServer, and RESTful HTTP APIs for geodata<\/li>\n<li>A tile-serving service from OpenStreetMap (also, for OpenStreetMap: 4 major API changes)<\/li>\n<li>Over four dozen additional contributors to the source code<\/li>\n<li>Over 2000 trac tickets<\/li>\n<li>10 2.x releases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, is it any shock that it&#8217;s time for a pretty major change?<\/p>\n<p>In order to facilitate rapid development, we&#8217;ve shifted development of OpenLayers &#8216;3.0&#8217; to github; you can follow along (or fork you own) on the <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/openlayers\/openlayers\/\">OpenLayers github project<\/a>. To be honest, git scares the crap out of me; every time I&#8217;ve used it, I have consistently lost data as a result of not understanding the tool and using the wrong command. However, I fully realize I am a fuddy duddy who needs to get over his problems at this point. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to seeing the future of the world where OpenLayers is even more awesome than it already is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenLayers is approaching the &#8216;Brave New World&#8217; of a major API breakage for the first time since OpenLayers 2.0 in October of 2006. Things that have changed in OpenLayers since then: Support for vector drawing. The existence of &#8216;spherical mercator&#8217; reprojection of objects More than a dozen new layer types The existence of TileCache, FeatureServer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}