.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .TH OPENLAYERS 7 "December 29, 2007" .SH NAME openlayers \- JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers .SH DESCRIPTION OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference -- OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community. If you use Apache, you likely want to install the openlayers-apache package, which will make the OpenLayers library available from .nh http://localhost/openlayers/OpenLayers.js. .hy This .SH SEE ALSO .BR tilecache (8) .SH AUTHOR OpenLayers was written by the OpenLayers developers, and contributors are listed in the authors.txt file in the documentation directory. .PP This manual page was written by Christopher Schmidt .nh . .hy