A Curious Animal

Projections, projections, projections

Create a map of the earth isn't an easy problem. Projections basically tries to solve the problem of how to 3D element on a 2D surface. Tons of papers have been written about this problem but a nice place to start is the wikipedia entry about Map Projections.

Things seen last week

Improved performance on the AnimatedCluster for OpenLayers

Yes, now I'm really proud to present the AnimatedCluster strategy for OpenLayers. Some time ago I created an AnimatedCluster strategy for OpenLayers that extends the basic Cluster strategy, animating cluster when user changes the zoom. {% highlight javascript %} for(var i=0; i<this.features.length; ++i) { feature = this.features[i]; } {% endhighlight %}

OpenLayers Cookbook pirated... but you can continue buying it !!!

Approximately a month ago my book OpenLayers Cookbook was released by PacktPublishing and today I found it is available at many sites of debatable reputation. Really I'm surprising by the velocity of this alternative publication process :)

Architexa product review

Architexa product is an Eclipse plugin from Architexa.com company. As their web site say:

Creating static maps in OpenLayers using PhantomJS

Many times in a web mapping application it is desired to save a picture with the current map information.Those who works with Google Maps API has also the <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/" Static Maps API, which works similarly than Google Maps but produces static images. if (system.args.length < 4 || system.args.length > 6) { console.log('Usage: rasterize_element.js URL filename selector [paperwidthpaperheight|paperformat] [zoom]'); console.log(' paper (pdf…