Everything about OpenLayers

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: OpenLayersA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: OpenLayers CookbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Application of OpenLayers in marine information monitoringCited 1 times
4. Go sideways: Leaflet (software)A closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Open Source Geospatial FoundationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Application of OpenLayers in marine information monitoring

  Yuqin He, Zhenbo Bi, Haobin Tian · 2019 · E3S Web of Conferences · 1 citations

• Real Time Co-editing of High Vertex Count Geometries Using OpenLayers and CRDTs - a Performance Analysis

  Hrvoje Matijević, Nikola Kranjčić, Vlado Cetl · 2025 · The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences · 1 citations

• Investigation of Relevance Between Landslide and Stand Areas on Open Source Web Map (Openlayers): Case Study in Trabzon Region

  Selçuk GÜMÜŞ, Taha Yasin HATAY, Saliha ÜNVER OKAN · 2019 · European Journal of Forest Engineering · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕OpenLayers CookbookAntonio Santiago Perez · 2012
• 📕Instant OpenLayers StarterAlessio Di Lorenzo, Giovanni Allegri · 2013
• Mastering OpenLayers 3Gabor Farkas · 2016
• 📕OpenLayersGeorge Duckett · 2017
• OpenLayers 2.10 beginner's guideErik Hazzard · 2011
• 📕OpenLayers 3Thomas Gratier · 2015
• OpenLayers 3 Beginner s GuideThomas Gratier, Paul Spencer · 2015
• OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook - Second EditionPeter J. Langley, Antonio Santiago Perez · 2016

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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