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Rui A.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/8/2020

"For years I've used Openlayers as my main mapping rendering system"

5/5

Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:

Openlayers helped me on the development of GIS web apps like portals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about OpenLayers?

The easy way to use withing the framework that I used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenLayers?

Some functions that used to be very useful from version transitions were depercated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:

This is the best mapping framework for web integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem solving is to help local authorities to have great mapping systems and with great interaction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/20/2021

"It makes creating map mashups extremely easy"

5/5

Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:

We needed to display all that data stored in our Postgres database on the front-end.

Front-end was requesting data with a Geoserver, returning GeoJson.

OpenLayers made this process very easy.

I had to show polygons, lines like for example properties, streets, etc.

I used Google for map server road / satellite views. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about OpenLayers?

Documentations are very nice and you need to learn how to use it. It comes with good examples. Great community, you can find help on stackexchange websites like stackoverflow and gis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenLayers?

Nothing about OpenLayers, but there are some things you need to know about GIS in general to understand some features it provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?

It works really well with GeoServer. So it's a flexible front-end solution that makes it easy to display geo data on maps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Praveen G.

Sr. s/w engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/13/2021

"I have 4 years exp in openlayers and 6 years webgis, Basicalli am java professional"

4/5

Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:

I created a drawing toll on top of OpenLayers. loaded different map layers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about OpenLayers?

Whole functionality. I loaded both raster and vector layers. It is an open-source it gives the flexibility to change the function for your use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenLayers?

No feature I dislike. make some improvements for 3d mapping Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:

good product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Used plotting cable network. mapping of different layers for real estate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ather A.

Project Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/24/2021

"Open Layer"

5/5

Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:

I have used Openlayers in number of applications like Snow avalanche, Spatial Data Clearinghouse, Flood mapping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about OpenLayers?

Its a comprehensive library and also provide integration with Cesium, JSTS, VT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenLayers?

missing react compatability ... but we can sort it out by writing a View model instead of component. you can creat one component that will return a div with id as map and then use Openlayer as view model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mostly Land and Water application and its good for Web application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/22/2021

"Simple & Powerful"

4/5

Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:

I am not a developer by profession. I work on GIS data handling and analysis. But, I decided to self learn the WEBGIS development which led me to the introduction of OpenLayers library, which made me to help the core developers with few suggestions for making the end product with better visulization and interaction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about OpenLayers?

The packages I loved in OpenLayers are interactive basemap toggles, add & edit features, routing machine and so on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenLayers?

May be, I would say few options are not available which other libraries do have with them. Hoping to see those packages very soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:

Give a start. You wont get disappointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Routing related problems, Client-side data creation & update using the web application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/20/2021

"Great experience with openlayers during my internship"

4.5/5

Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:

I worked on a project where we use mathematical probability as described by Bayes theorem in a map navigation that is different from the basic pan and zoom navigation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about OpenLayers?

It was easy to integrate with javascript and css Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenLayers?

Not much is available as an explanation on the web if you are stuck somewhere Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?

I implemented the project and opted for openlayers. People can use my project to navigate faster to the city/town they want to search on a map with some basic knowledge of direction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PARTH G.

GIS Analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/20/2021

"Amazing library for Creating interactive Mapping & spatial analytics."

4/5

Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:

Creating Geospatial platform for interactive mapping and visualisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about OpenLayers?

Interactive objects of spatial mapping with easy to understand methods Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/21/2021

"It’s just awesome with map"

5/5

Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:

I have developed the custom bubble map for birth registration system of South Africa Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about OpenLayers?

Flexible, scalability , i can customise the css as well as node of graph Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suleiman A.

Snr Front End Software Engineer (React Native & React)

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/12/2020

"A fairly pleasant experience working with OpenLayers. The docs were very helpful."

3.5/5

Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:

Developed a real time IOT connected web based location monitoring software. OpenLayers was used to show device and wearer's current and previous locations using icons. It was also used to create a wearer's exclusion and inclusion zones as well as a wearer's heat map. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about OpenLayers?

The existing functions to draw polygons, Coming from a JavaScript background, I also found the syntax easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenLayers?

The learning curve from 2 to 3 was rather too much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Drawing polygons and saving the points in a database. These points can be retrieved from any devices and automatically draw a new polygon. Also able to draw a circle around an area on the map by entering just a post code. And more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Environmental Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/5/2019

"Creating a web gis application for hydrologic modelling"

3.5/5

Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:

In the web GIS project wer have implemented our aim was to create an application where users can upload their GIS data into our server for processing and to show processed data on a map. We have implemented new technologies such as vector layers in web GIS. OpenLayer's vector layer library have helped us to visualize spatial data and we have used some other tools such as drag&drop on map for implementing the user interaction with application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about OpenLayers?

In fact I was a great fan of Leaflet. But when I was trying to find a way to show and manage vector layers on Leaflet I came across with a problem still persist on Leaflet's vector layer library. So I changed my direction to openLayers. But my prior experience wasn't so pretty with OpenLayers (v3) but last year I've realized OpenLayers 5 was bundled with webpack and there are plenty of examples on the documentation. Boilerplate Openlayers5 project on the Github was the best thing about OpenLayers. I was able to build my project on top of it very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenLayers?

Documentation is pretty good but I think there must be more examples on how to use some complicate functions. Especially third party packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?

My problem was rendering dynamic data that streamed from server to the client. I have used the vectorlayer functions very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.