--- title: OpenLayers Reviews meta_title: 'OpenLayers Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how OpenLayers works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 18 scale: '5' date_modified: '2025-10-31' parent_category: name: Development Services url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development-services --- # OpenLayers Reviews **Vendor:** OpenLayers **Category:** [Other Development Services Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-development-services) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About OpenLayers OpenLayers helps to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles, vector data and markers loaded from any source. ## OpenLayers Reviews ### 1. For years I've used Openlayers as my main mapping rendering system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rui A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2020 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** Openlayers helped me on the development of GIS web apps like portals **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** The easy way to use withing the framework that I used. **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** Some functions that used to be very useful from version transitions were depercated **Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:** This is the best mapping framework for web integration **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 ### 2. It makes creating map mashups extremely easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2021 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 3. I have 4 years exp in openlayers and 6 years webgis, Basicalli am java professional **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen G. | Sr. s/w engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** I created a drawing toll on top of OpenLayers. loaded different map layers **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. **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** No feature I dislike. make some improvements for 3d mapping **Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:** good product **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used plotting cable network. mapping of different layers for real estate ### 4. Open Layer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ather A. | Project Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2021 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** I have used Openlayers in number of applications like Snow avalanche, Spatial Data Clearinghouse, Flood mapping. **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** Its a comprehensive library and also provide integration with Cesium, JSTS, VT **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 **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly Land and Water application and its good for Web application ### 5. Simple & Powerful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **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 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:** Give a start. You wont get disappointed. **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Routing related problems, Client-side data creation & update using the web application. ### 6. Great experience with openlayers during my internship **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2021 **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. **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** It was easy to integrate with javascript and css **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** Not much is available as an explanation on the web if you are stuck somewhere **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 ### 7. Amazing library for Creating interactive Mapping & spatial analytics. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PARTH G. | GIS Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2021 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** Creating Geospatial platform for interactive mapping and visualisation. **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** Interactive objects of spatial mapping with easy to understand methods **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** Require more ready to use object methods for webgis application. **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not really solve an issue but prepare methods for making code easier ### 8. It’s just awesome with map **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2021 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** I have developed the custom bubble map for birth registration system of South Africa **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** Flexible, scalability , i can customise the css as well as node of graph **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** It’s use vanilla JavaScript instead of it should have angular and react modules **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lookup problem in a map ### 9. A fairly pleasant experience working with OpenLayers. The docs were very helpful. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suleiman A. | Snr Front End Software Engineer (React Native & React), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2020 **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. **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. **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** The learning curve from 2 to 3 was rather too much. **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. ### 10. Creating a web gis application for hydrologic modelling **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2019 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 11. Openlayers are more flexible and robust than any other open source mapping libraries **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2019 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** While working on the Spatial data dissemination of the project NSAF(https://krishiprabidhi.net/), I have found OpenLayers more effective to showcase the data and analysis in the map **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** I like the easy to start and tones of example about the OpenLayers **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** I wish OpenLayers have more flexibility working on the Raster data set and google base map **Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:** For web-based GIS or spatial data/map integration, I would recommend using OpenLayers. OpenLayers have a rich inbuilt function and tones of example which makes you tackle all your want and problem of data dissemination in the web platforms. With GeoServer and PostgreSQL database, OpenLayers give you the perfect way to create the geoportal or geospatial applications. **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have integrated the OpenLayers with many of my web-GIS projects and it helps me tackle up the most effective way of creating interactive maps on the web. ### 12. The Outsmart and Best opensourse gis library for application development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Swaraj D. | Assistant Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2020 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** plot report generation **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** the technicalities used in openlayers is simply brilliant **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** official example required for QGIS server integration **Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:** The OpenLayers gis map rendering library is capable to cater all prime functionalities which are essential to render gis map. **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** doing map page of web GIS application with OpenLayers. It is best opensource library in its class. ### 13. Plenty useful OSM APIs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thet Phyo A. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** My first navigation based app My second Job Resulting on Map app **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** OSM Javascript APIs and Nominatim for GeoJson data Good and useful Map interaction APIs Powerful Geolocation APIs **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** - unsame nested array structures of data models in boundries array of coordinates of geojson of Nominatiom **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very assist and useful in my projects. By using OSM, time cosuming and wasting are reduce completely and get high speed of production in my work! ### 14. Great Dynamic software with numerous features! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2020 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** Administering layers in a more significant and dynamic format. **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** The quality of the software, as well as the processing and visualization time compared to most software packages of its kind. **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** Not much really. I believe the developers will come across ways to make the software even more likable. **Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:** Nice environment for quick to use layers! **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Numerous application run-around issues. When needing to visualize the difference in layers, etc. ### 15. Showing various crops in any region with the openlayers on osm map **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2019 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** Application in agriculture, smart city management, transport management etc. **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** In built functions for playing with spatial geometries and showing multiple layers at a time. **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** Need some more in built fuctions like other open source packages like GDAL for better manuplation of spatial data. **Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:** One of the best open source option for learning as well executing small or big vauable applications for showing spatial information. **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** Showing different information on a single map along with different styling and legends. ### 16. OpenLayers rocks **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** A Fleet Management project needed a map with markers to have an overall view of where all the vehicles were at a given moment. **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** It's simple to use, vast amount of resources to learn and the possibility to use a lot of different tilesets **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** At the time it wasn't very mobile-friendly, in my experience **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** mapping data to the real world, with open source! ### 17. Best for geoserver layer mapping **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2019 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** Wms tile layer mapping **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** Compatible to work with geoserver,wms layers can be easily populated **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** Limited examples,should include more examples on gis **What problems is OpenLayers solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped me to render wms layer on webmap ### 18. Steep Learning Curve- Worth the Work **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Liz V. | Learning and Measurement Intern, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2018 **Describe the project or task OpenLayers helped with:** OpenLayers is a helpful and increasingly innovative way to integrate design into your spatial analysis. I used OpenLayers plugins to map out a catchment area for my nonprofit. **What do you like best about OpenLayers?** Liked the image quality, the ability to customize the map file, and the amount of other people using OpenLayers right now who are available to help on platforms like Stack Overflow. **What do you dislike about OpenLayers?** I was not familiar with HTML or CSS before finding OpenLayers, so I had to learn some tricks of the trade when it comes to writing in code. **Recommendations to others considering OpenLayers:** Become more familiar with the HTML and CSS platforms as you start to pick up OpenLayers. ## OpenLayers Discussions - [What is OpenLayers JS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-openlayers-js) - [Is OpenLayers an API?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-openlayers-an-api) - [Is OpenLayers a GIS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-openlayers-a-gis) - [What can you do with OpenLayers?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-can-you-do-with-openlayers) - [View OpenLayers pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/openlayers/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-27+16%3A10%3A40+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2a31041e-10ed-4317-9a4a-f7826476b63b&secure%5Btoken%5D=21f931288a970fd27830e02ba9fe42e8736824bf3b1b23b919a9ab57054faa3c&format=llm_user) ## OpenLayers Features **Planning** - Needs Assessment - Resource Allocation - Stayed within Budget - Statement of Work - Best Practices **Delivery** - Technical Expertise - Met Deadlines - Meeting Management - Project Updates - Scope Management - Roll-out **Support** - Go Live Support - Documentation - Training - Metrics - Admin Services **Team Quality** - Change Management Skills - Executive Presence - Vertical Expertise - Technology Partnerships ## Top OpenLayers Alternatives - [Weseeble](https://www.g2.com/products/weseeble/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (55 reviews) - [Chetu](https://www.g2.com/products/chetu/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (44 reviews) - [DSP](https://www.g2.com/products/dsp-dsp/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (47 reviews)