<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1892841f-8038-7d11-ad18-f818a7d9e037"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Hi all, here’s my last report for the OL3-Google-Maps project.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">First of all, here’s a link to all my commits on the project, as requested by Google: </span><a href="https://github.com/mapgears/ol3-google-maps/commits/master?author=samuellapointe" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://github.com/mapgears/ol3-google-maps/commits/master?author=samuellapointe</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The goal for the project was to add support for new types of layers in the OL3-Google-Maps library. This meant that the layers using the WMS, XYZ and TMS protocols would be rendered using the Google Maps API.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Before the beginning of the summer, these layers would be rendered using OpenLayers 3 and placed above the Google Maps layer. There was a visible desynchronisation when panning and zooming in the map, as OL3 and Google Maps don’t animate these actions the same way.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">With the additions of this summer, most tile protocols are supported in the library, as well as the ImageWMS layer type. These layers are rendered by Google Maps itself, so there’s no possible desynchronisation. Moreover, there is now a website to showcase the library and its features, as well as automatic code checks and tests on new pull requests and commits.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">To get started, you can find a link to download the latest version of the library, and instructions on how to use it here: </span><a href="http://mapgears.github.io/ol3-google-maps/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://mapgears.github.io/ol3-google-maps/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">If you want to try some of the features without installing the library on your machine, you can go to the examples page: </span><a href="http://mapgears.github.io/ol3-google-maps/examples/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://mapgears.github.io/ol3-google-maps/examples/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Link to the slide, as requested by OSGeo: </span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:GSoC2016_OL3GM_Slide.png" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:GSoC2016_OL3GM_Slide.png</span></a></p><br></span></div>