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Re:Testing web map APIs – Google vs OpenLayers vs Leaflet by twp on Saturday March 22, 2014 @09:47PM (#7451736)
OpenLayers 3 dev here.

All these mapping libraries are great.

Google Maps comes with great data. Leaflet has a really nice API. OpenLayers 3 comes with loads of functionality built in.

Please check out our OpenLayers 3 examples at http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/

Interesting ones include:

Full screen rotate and zoom: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/full-screen-drag-rotate-...

Animation: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/animation.html

60fps heatmaps: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/heatmap-earthquakes.html

High quality KML rendering: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/kml.html

Detailed geometries: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/igc.html

Canvas effects: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/layer-spy.html

Canvas, DOM and WebGL renders: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/side-by-side.html

Full application with OpenLayers 3, Angular and Bootstrap: http://map.geo.admin.ch/

Re:Testing web map APIs – Google vs OpenLayers vs Leaflet by 1wheel on Saturday March 22, 2014 @11:05PM (#7451929)
Nice! Suggestion on the animation 'Fly to Bern' - change how far the map zooms out depending on how far it needs to move.

http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/6301872

http://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/zoompan.pdf

Re:Testing web map APIs – Google vs OpenLayers vs Leaflet by twp on Saturday March 22, 2014 @11:27PM (#7451979)
Thanks! This is a really nice algorithm. We should be able to add it to ol3.
Re:Testing web map APIs – Google vs OpenLayers vs Leaflet by dageshi on Saturday March 22, 2014 @10:45PM (#7451882)
Hi these look really impressive, at the moment I'm building something with Openlayers 2, any feel for how big of a jump it is to port stuff to ol3? Are things like selectfeatures/styling the same or has all changed?
Re:Testing web map APIs – Google vs OpenLayers vs Leaflet by twp on Sunday March 23, 2014 @07:50AM (#7452998)
There's equivalent functionality is OpenLayers 3, but the API has changed.