The OpenLayers object provides a namespace for all things OpenLayers

Deprecated.

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A collection of utility functions for executing methods that repaint a portion of the browser window.

Contains convenience functions for array manipulation.

Instances of this class represent bounding boxes.

The OpenLayers.Console namespace is used for debugging and error logging.

Controls affect the display or behavior of the map.

The ArgParser control adds location bar query string parsing functionality to an OpenLayers Map.

The attribution control adds attribution from layers to the map display.

The Button control is a very simple push-button, for use with OpenLayers.Control.Panel.

A control for using image tiles cached with OpenLayers.Control.CacheWrite from the browser’s local storage.

A control for caching image tiles in the browser’s local storage.

The DragFeature control moves a feature with a drag of the mouse.

The DragPan control pans the map with a drag of the mouse.

The DrawFeature control draws point, line or polygon features on a vector layer when active.

The EditingToolbar is a panel of 4 controls to draw polygons, lines, points, or to navigate the map by panning.

The Geolocate control wraps w3c geolocation API into control that can be bound to a map, and generate events on location update

Gets vector features for locations underneath the mouse cursor.

The Graticule displays a grid of latitude/longitude lines reprojected on the map.

The KeyboardDefaults control adds panning and zooming functions, controlled with the keyboard.

The LayerSwitcher control displays a table of contents for the map.

Allows for drawing of features for measurements.

Control to modify features.

This class is DEPRECATED in 2.4 and will be removed by 3.0.

The MousePosition control displays geographic coordinates of the mouse pointer, as it is moved about the map.

This class is DEPRECATED in 2.4 and will be removed by 3.0.

The navigation control handles map browsing with mouse events (dragging, double-clicking, and scrolling the wheel).

A navigation history control.

This Toolbar is an alternative to the Navigation control that displays the state of the control, and provides a UI for changing state to use the zoomBox via a Panel control.

The OverMap control creates a small overview map, useful to display the extent of a zoomed map and your main map and provide additional navigation options to the User.

The Pan control is a single button to pan the map in one direction.

The Panel control is a container for other controls.

The PanPanel is visible control for panning the map North, South, East or West in small steps.

The PanZoom is a visible control, composed of a OpenLayers.Control.PanPanel and a OpenLayers.Control.ZoomPanel.

The PanZoomBar is a visible control composed of a OpenLayers.Control.PanPanel and a OpenLayers.Control.ZoomBar.

The Permalink control is hyperlink that will return the user to the current map view.

The Scale control displays the current map scale as a ratio (e.g.

The ScaleLine displays a small line indicator representing the current map scale on the map.

The SelectFeature control selects vector features from a given layer on click or hover.

Perform selections on WMS layers using Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)

Acts as a snapping agent while editing vector features.

Acts as a split feature agent while editing vector features.

The navigation control handles map browsing with touch events (dragging, double-tapping, tap with two fingers, and pinch zoom).

Control to transform features with a standard transformation box.

This Control provides behavior associated with UTFGrid Layers.

The WMSGetFeatureInfo control uses a WMS query to get information about a point on the map.

The WMTSGetFeatureInfo control uses a WMTS query to get information about a point on the map.

The Zoom control is a pair of +/- links for zooming in and out.

The ZoomBox control enables zooming directly to a given extent, by drawing a box on the map.

The ZoomIn control is a button to increase the zoom level of a map.

The ZoomOut control is a button to decrease the zoom level of a map.

The ZoomPanel control is a compact collecton of 3 zoom controls: a OpenLayers.Control.ZoomIn, a OpenLayers.Control.ZoomToMaxExtent, and a OpenLayers.Control.ZoomOut.

The ZoomToMaxExtent control is a button that zooms out to the maximum extent of the map.

Contains implementations of Date.parse and date.toISOString that match the ECMAScript 5 specification for parsing RFC 3339 dates.

Easing Equations by Robert Penner, http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/

This class takes care of figuring out which order elements should be placed in the DOM based on given indexing methods.

These are the compare methods for figuring out where a new node should be placed within the indexer.

Utility functions for event handling.

Extension event type for handling buttons on top of a dom element.

Extension event type for handling feature click events, including overlapping features.

Extension event type for handling leaving a feature.

Extension event type for handling hovering over a feature.

Extension event type for handling click events that do not hit a feature.

Features are combinations of geography and attributes.

Vector features use the OpenLayers.Geometry classes as geometry description.

WFS handling class, for use as a featureClass on the WFS layer for handling ‘point’ WFS types.

This class represents an OGC Filter.

This class represents a comparison filter.

This class represents a ogc:FeatureId Filter, as being used for rule-based SLD styling

This class represents a filter function.

This class represents ogc:And, ogc:Or and ogc:Not rules.

This class represents a spatial filter.

Base class for format reading/writing a variety of formats.

Read/Write ArcXML.

Read/Write ArcXML features.

Read/write Atom feeds.

Base class for both Format.WMC and Format.OWSContext

Read CQL strings to get OpenLayers.Filter objects.

Default version is 2.0.2.

A format for creating CSWGetDomain v2.0.2 transactions.

Default version is 2.0.2.

A format for creating CSWGetRecords v2.0.2 transactions.

Class for reading and writing encoded polylines.

Read/Write ogc:Filter.

Superclass for Filter version 1 parsers.

Write ogc:Filter version 1.0.0.

Write ogc:Filter version 1.1.0.

Read and write GeoJSON.

Read/write GeoRSS parser.

Read/Write GML.

Superclass for GML parsers.

Parses GML version 2.

Parses GML version 3.

Read/write GPX parser.

A parser to read/write JSON safely.

Read/Write KML.

Class to read exception reports for various OGC services and versions.

OSM parser.

Read OWSCommon.

Common readers and writers for OWSCommon v1.X formats

Parser for OWS Common version 1.0.0.

Parser for OWS Common version 1.1.0.

Read and write OWS Context documents.

Read and write OWSContext version 0.3.1.

Parser for reading a query string and creating a simple filter.

Read/Write SLD.

Superclass for SLD version 1 parsers.

Write SLD version 1.0.0.

Read and write SLD version 1.0.0 with GeoServer-specific enhanced options.

Read SOS Capabilities.

Read SOS Capabilities version 1.0.0.

Read and write SOS GetFeatureOfInterest.

Read and write SOS GetObersation (to get the actual values from a sensor) version 1.0.0

Read Text format.

Read WCS Capabilities.

Abstract class not to be instantiated directly.

Read WCS Capabilities version 1.0.0.

Read WCS Capabilities version 1.1.0.

Read/Write WFS.

Read WFS Capabilities.

Abstract class not to be instantiated directly.

Read WFS Capabilities version 1.0.0.

Read WFS Capabilities version 1.1.0.

Read WFS DescribeFeatureType response

Superclass for WFST parsers.

A format for creating WFS v1.0.0 transactions.

A format for creating WFS v1.1.0 transactions.

Class for reading and writing Well-Known Text.

Read and write Web Map Context documents.

Superclass for WMC version 1 parsers.

Read and write WMC version 1.0.0.

Read and write WMC version 1.1.0.

Read WMS Capabilities.

Abstract class not to be instantiated directly.

Abstract class not to be instantiated directly.

Read WMS Capabilities version 1.1.0.

Read WMS Capabilities version 1.1.1.

Read WMS-C Capabilities version 1.1.1.

Abstract base class for WMS Capabilities version 1.3.X.

Read WMS Capabilities version 1.3.0.

Read SLD WMS DescribeLayer response DescribeLayer is meant to couple WMS to WFS and WCS

Read SLD WMS DescribeLayer response for WMS 1.1.X WMS 1.1.X is tightly coupled to SLD 1.0.0

Class to read GetFeatureInfo responses from Web Mapping Services

Read WMTS Capabilities.

Read WMTS Capabilities version 1.0.0.

Read WPS Capabilities.

Read WPS Capabilities version 1.0.0.

Read WPS DescribeProcess responses.

Read/Write XLS (OpenLS).

Superclass for XLS version 1 parsers.

Read / write XLS version 1.1.0.

Read and write XML.

Base class for versioned formats, i.e.

Contains convenience functions for function manipulation.

A Geometry is a description of a geographic object.

A Collection is exactly what it sounds like: A collection of different Geometries.

A Curve is a MultiPoint, whose points are assumed to be connected.

A Linear Ring is a special LineString which is closed.

A LineString is a Curve which, once two points have been added to it, can never be less than two points long.

A MultiLineString is a geometry with multiple OpenLayers.Geometry.LineString components.

MultiPoint is a collection of Points.

MultiPolygon is a geometry with multiple OpenLayers.Geometry.Polygon components.

Point geometry class.

Polygon is a collection of Geometry.LinearRings.

This class is not supported, and probably isn’t what you’re looking for.

Base class to construct a higher-level handler for event sequences.

Handler for dragging a rectangle across the map.

A handler for mouse clicks.

The drag handler is used to deal with sequences of browser events related to dragging.

Handler to respond to mouse events related to a drawn feature.

The hover handler is to be used to emulate mouseovers on objects on the map that aren’t DOM elements.

A handler for keyboard events.

Handler for wheel up/down events.

Handler to draw a path on the map.

The pinch handler is used to deal with sequences of browser events related to pinch gestures.

Handler to draw a point on the map.

Handler to draw a polygon on the map.

Handler to draw a regular polygon on the map.

The icon represents a graphical icon on the screen.

Internationalization namespace.

Dictionary for العربية.

Dictionary for Беларуская (тарашкевіца).

Dictionary for Български.

Dictionary for Brezhoneg.

Dictionary for Catalan, UTF8 encoding.

Dictionary for Česky.

Dictionary for Danish.

Dictionary for Deutsch.

Dictionary for Ελληνικά.

Dictionary for English.

Dictionary for English-CA.

Dictionary for Spanish, UTF8 encoding.

Dictionary for Suomi.

Dictionary for Français.

Dictionary for Furlan.

Dictionary for Galego.

Dictionary for Alemannisch.

Dictionary for Hrvatski.

Dictionary for Hornjoserbsce.

Dictionary for Magyar.

Dictionary for Interlingua.

Dictionary for Bahasa Indonesia.

Dictionary for Ido.

Dictionary for Íslenska.

Dictionary for Italian.

Dictionary for 日本語.

Dictionary for ភាសាខ្មែរ.

Dictionary for Ripoarisch.

Dictionary for Lithuanian.

Dictionary for norwegian bokmål (Norway).

Dictionary for Plattdüütsch.

Dictionary for Nederlands.

Dictionary for ‪Norsk (nynorsk)‬.

Dictionary for Occitan.

Dictionary for Polish.

Dictionary for Português.

Dictionary for Português do Brasil.

Dictionary for Romanian.

Dictionary for Русский.

Dictionary for Slovenčina.

Dictionary for Svenska.

Dictionary for తెలుగు.

Dictionary for Tiếng Việt.

Dictionary for Simplified Chinese.

Dictionary for Traditional Chinese.

Instances of OpenLayers.Layer.ArcGIS93Rest are used to display data from ESRI ArcGIS Server 9.3 (and up?)

Instances of OpenLayers.Layer.ArcIMS are used to display data from ESRI ArcIMS Mapping Services.

Bing layer using direct tile access as provided by Bing Maps REST Services.

Draw divs as ‘boxes’ on the layer.

Base class for 3rd party layers, providing a DOM element which isolates the 3rd-party layer from mouse events.

Some Layers will already have established zoom levels (like google or ve).

Add GeoRSS Point features to your map.

Create a vector layer by parsing a GML file.

Provides a wrapper for Google’s Maps API Normally the Terms of Use for this API do not allow wrapping, but Google have provided written consent to OpenLayers for this - see email in http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Google-Maps-API-Terms-of-Use-changes-tp4910013p4911981.html

Base class for layers that use a lattice of tiles.

Instances of OpenLayers.Layer.Image are used to display data from a web accessible image as a map layer.

This class is designed to talk directly to a web-accessible ka-Map cache generated by the precache2.php script.

Instances of OpenLayers.Layer.MapGuide are used to display data from a MapGuide OS instance.

Instances of OpenLayers.Layer.MapServer are used to display data from a MapServer CGI instance.

Deprecated.

This layer allows accessing OpenStreetMap tiles.

A point grid layer dynamically generates a regularly spaced grid of point features.

Vector layer to display ordered point features as a line, creating one LineString feature for each pair of two points.

A mixin for layers that wraps up the pieces neccesary to have a coordinate conversion for working with commercial APIs which use a spherical mercator projection.

This layer creates markers given data in a text file.

A read only TileCache layer.

Create a layer for accessing tiles from services that conform with the Tile Map Service Specification (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Tile_Map_Service_Specification).

This Layer reads from UTFGrid tiled data sources.

Instances of OpenLayers.Layer.Vector are used to render vector data from a variety of sources.

A special layer type to combine multiple vector layers inside a single renderer root container.

Deprecated.

Deprecated.

Instances of OpenLayers.Layer.WMS are used to display data from OGC Web Mapping Services.

Instances of OpenLayers.Layer.WMS.Post are used to retrieve data from OGC Web Mapping Services via HTTP-POST (application/x-www-form-urlencoded).

Deprecated.

Instances of the WMTS class allow viewing of tiles from a service that implements the OGC WMTS specification version 1.0.0.

The XYZ class is designed to make it easier for people who have tiles arranged by a standard XYZ grid.

This class represents a longitude and latitude pair

Instances of OpenLayers.Map are interactive maps embedded in a web page.

Instances of OpenLayers.Marker are a combination of a OpenLayers.LonLat and an OpenLayers.Icon.

Contains convenience functions for manipulating numbers.

This class represents a screen coordinate, in x and y coordinates

A popup is a small div that can opened and closed on the map.

This class is deprecated.

Methods for coordinate transforms between coordinate systems.

Abstract vector layer protocol class.

Used to create a versioned CSW protocol.

CS-W (Catalogue services for the Web) version 2.0.2 protocol.

A basic HTTP protocol for vector layers.

Protocols return Response objects to their users.

A basic Script protocol for vector layers.

An SOS v1.0.0 Protocol for vector layers.

Abstract SQL protocol class.

This Protocol stores feature in the browser via the Gears Database module http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_database.html.

Used to create a versioned WFS protocol.

Abstract class for for v1.0.0 and v1.1.0 protocol.

A WFS v1.0.0 protocol for vector layers.

A WFS v1.1.0 protocol for vector layers.

This is the base class for all renderers.

A renderer based on the 2D ‘canvas’ drawing element.

This is another virtual class in that it should never be instantiated by itself as a Renderer.

Render vector features in browsers with VML capability.

The OpenLayers.Request namespace contains convenience methods for working with XMLHttpRequests.

Standard-compliant (W3C) cross-browser implementation of the XMLHttpRequest object.

This class represents an SLD Rule, as being used for rule-based SLD styling.

Instances of this class represent a width/height pair

Abstract vector layer strategy class.

A simple strategy that reads new features when the viewport invalidates some bounds.

Strategy for vector feature clustering.

Strategy for limiting features that get added to a layer by evaluating a filter.

A simple strategy that requests features once and never requests new data.

Strategy for vector feature paging

A strategy that refreshes the layer.

A strategy that commits newly created or modified features.

Contains convenience functions for string manipulation.

This class represents a UserStyle obtained from a SLD, containing styling rules.

This class represents a collection of rules for rendering features.

Base class representing a symbolizer used for feature rendering.

A symbolizer used to render line features.

A symbolizer used to render point features.

A symbolizer used to render line features.

A symbolizer used to render raster images.

A symbolizer used to render text labels for features.

This is a class designed to designate a single tile, however it is explicitly designed to do relatively little.

Instances of OpenLayers.Tile.Image are used to manage the image tiles used by various layers.

Instances of OpenLayers.Tile.UTFGrid are used to manage UTFGrids.

Instances of OpenLayers.Tile.WFS are used to manage the image tiles used by various layers.

Provides queueing of image requests and caching of image elements.

A collection of utility functions to detect vendor prefixed features

High level API for interaction with Web Processing Services (WPS).

Representation of a WPS process.

Type for chaining processes.