PleiadesOpenLayers 0.6 (Oct 05, 2006)

New features and improved installer

For additional information about this project, please visit the overview page .

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For all platforms (231 kB)

Release Notes

Tested with Plone 2.5
State Final release
License GPL
Release Manager Sean Gillies

PleiadesOpenLayers 0.6 - October 5, 2006

This product embeds OpenLayers maps in Plone. For a live example, see

http://icon.stoa.org/pleiades-beta/Members/ol_map_view.

This release includes a patched OpenLayers 2.1. You can skip step 2 from the readme doc.

New features include:

  • Automated configuration of skin layers.
  • "Map Context" and "Map Layer" content types for building OpenLayers maps in Plone.
  • Expose OpenLayer.js via filesystem view for pure-Plone sites.

PleiadesOpenLayers depends on PleiadesGeocoder and simplejson.

For more details, see

http://icon.stoa.org/trac/pleiades/wiki/PleiadesOpenLayers

About Pleiades

Pleiades is an international research network and associated web portal and content management system devoted to the study of ancient geography.

See http://icon.stoa.org/trac/pleiades/wiki.

Funding for the creation of this software was provided by a grant from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov).

Change log

0.6: 2 October 2006

  • ol.js method now hooks to georss of the PleiadesGeocoder skin.
  • renamed ol_members_view to the more general ol_map_view.
  • PleiadesOpenLayers skin is now added to Plone Default during installation.
  • "Map Context" and "Map Layer" content types allow users to build WMS-based maps for use with OpenLayers.
  • New makefile for patching and deploying the OpenLayers javascript library.
  • New JSON views of map contexts and map features.
  • OpenLayers javascript library is registered as a directory view for use in pure-Plone sites.