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Possibilities of displaying the temporal component of data in Esri Story Maps
Published in Mohamad Al Ali, Peter Platko, Advances and Trends in Engineering Sciences and Technologies III, 2019
T. Janata, J. Cajthaml, J. Krejčí
OpenLayers is an open JavaScript library, the main purpose of which is to display geographic information in a web browser environment. The main advantage is the ability to load a large amount of data formats and a wide community of users developing additional expanding content. The Leaflet is a similar JavaScript library, focused on creating interactive maps with a strong support for mobile devices. It focuses on the flawless functionality of the basic set of functions and is easier to understand for users without the necessary knowledge of programming. Like OpenLayers, Leaflet is being expanded by plug-ins prepared by a wide community of users. Unlike the previous two, MapBox is a commercial project that focuses apart from the creation of web maps also on the development of its own standards (which also find their use within OpenLayers or the Leaflet). The most important use of MapBox is in the field of vector and raster map tiles.
Cloud decision support platform
Published in Blagoj Delipetrev, Nested Algorithms for Optimal Reservoir Operation and Their Embedding in a Decision Support Platform, 2020
The web service for supporting WRM is built using JQuery, OpenLayers library, and additionally developed prototype source code written in PHP, Ajax and JavaScript programming languages. OpenLayers is an open source JavaScript library that supports the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards from which Web Map Services (WMS) and Web Feature Services – Transactional (WFS-T) are used in the application. The web service is using WMS to connect with different base map providers (such as Google Maps or OpenLayers WMS) and uses these layers as background maps. The users can select the background map from the menu e.g. as shown in Figure 7.2, where OpenLayers WMS is used.
Spatiotemporal Event Visualization on Top of Google Earth
Published in Spyrou Evaggelos, Iakovidis Dimitris, Mylonas Phivos, Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Processing, 2017
Tsinaraki Chrisa, Kazasis Fotis, Tarantilis Nikolaos, Gioldasis Nektarios, Christodoulakis Stavros
Another recently popular web map infrastructure is OpenLayers, an open source JavaScript library for displaying maps on any web page. It provides a JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps’ APIs. OpenLayers is highly extensible and it serves as the foundation of all the web mapping interfaces. OpenLayers accesses data through industry standards and it may overlay multiple standards-compliant map layers into a single application. Some examples of OpenLayers-based applications are listed below:
A Web-based geo-marketing decision support system for land selection: a case study of Tehran, Iran
Published in Annals of GIS, 2019
Morteza Omidipoor, Mohammadreza Jelokhani-Niaraki, Najmeh Neysani Samany
Presentation (client) or graphical user interfaces (GUI) tier supports the user interaction with the GDSS. The GUI of the system is developed using OpenLayers library (https://openlayers.org/) and Ext JS. OpenLayers is an open-source client-side pure JavaScript library that is used for the purpose of providing the Google, OpenStreetMap and Bing base map services (WMS) as well as land and urban facilities feature services (WFS), with no server-side dependencies. Ext JS is a pure JavaScript application framework for building interactive cross-platform web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting. This framework provides a set of GUI elements (forms and controls) for use within the GDSS.