OpenLayers 2.11 Released
Congratulations to the OpenLayers development team on the release of OpenLayers 2.11!
This release is a big one, closing over 380 outstanding tickets and providing significant performance improvements. The biggest win is the mobile support enhancements. OpenLayers now allows features to be dragged and zoomed with touch gestures on mobile devices. Handlers for pinching and zooming have also been added to the library.
Other key highlights are the plethora of performance enhancements and the additional support for accessing Bing Maps tiles. The release notes go into detail about all of the new features and you can see them in action on the OpenLayers demo site—to really get a feel for the improvements open the demo in a mobile browser.
OpenGeo is committed to the OpenLayers project and we’re eager to support it however we can. A good deal of the development was done by OpenGeo team members Tim Schuab, Andreas Hocevar and Bart van den Eijnden in February of as a part of the code sprint hosted by Camptocamp and Swisstopo. That week in Switzerland proved to be a critical step forward in pushing mobile enhancements and the 2.11 release to completion. A full recap of the sprint is accesible from Tim’s post on the OpenLayers blog.
Thanks again to the OpenLayers team, the supporters of the code sprint and everyone who has contributed to this new release!
Tags: components, opengeo suite, openlayers, Partners, team, technology
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[...] OpenGeo has announced that Open Layers 2.11 has been released. VerticalGeo has been using Open Layers 2.10 and it has proven to be a powerful open source web-based visualization platform. Open Layers does a great job of combining services and static content into a web-based map. You can read the OpenGeo release article here: Link. [...]