OpenLayers Workshop Examples and Links

Slides

The slides as given in the workshop are available here (PDF).

Demos

1. Creating a Map
2. Layers - Adding a WMS Layer
3. Introduction to Projections
4. Layers - Tile and 3rd Party Layers
5. Controls
6. Vectors - Loading KML
7. Vectors - Strategy - BBOX Filtering and Clustering
8. Vectors - Some Style
9. Vectors - Control and Popups
10. Vectors - Drawing Tools and the Save Strategy

Other Examples

• 'Official' OpenLayers Examples - The project's recommended teaching resource
• Choropleth Vector Map

Documentation Links

• OpenLayers User Manual - a helpful, but incomplete beginners guide to OpenLayers
• OpenLayers API Reference - the API documentation for OpenLayers - aimed at techies, but useful to lookup an option
• OpenLayers Developer Reference - the full fat version of the above