[OpenLayers-Users] openlayers n ol3 - are they related???

[Andreas Hocevar]

Way too much rumor here. Neither does Boundless lead ol3, nor does it own
Leaflet. ol3, short for OpenLayers 3, is the successor of OpenLayers 2, and
is mostly being developed by the same individuals as OpenLayers 2, backed
by the same organizations. Boundless is just one of these organizations.
Regarding Leaflet, you are totally wrong. If you want to play the
company-owns-project game, which is totally inappropriate in my opinion,
then it would be Mapbox, but not Boundless, who owns Leaflet.

Having said that, ol3 is still under development. During the ongoing beta
phase, some more functionality will be added, documentation completed, and
build and integration stories improved. ol3 was not meant to be backwards
compatible with OpenLayers 2. The strategy is to look forward rather than
back, leveraging latest browser technologies and building a mapping library
for the future. OpenLayers 2 will still be maintained for a while, so no
need to worry.

An update to http://openlayers.org/ should soon go online in a few minutes,
addint a link to the http://ol3js.org/ website in the "Towards OpenLayers
3" section.

I hope this clarifies things. Let us know if you have more questions.

Andreas.


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:40 PM, John Smith <jayzee.smith at gmail.com> wrote:

> okay. I guess I'll stick my neck out and put the rumors in the open...
>
> boundless is now leading ol3 dev. it is now also owning leaflet dev. at
> some point it'll pick one over the other. meanwhile openlayers remains the
> ex-bff. sad because openlayers is freaking awesome with mobile, html5 and
> geojson. so why ol3 then??? why are both showing commits?!
>
> honestly ol3 pays lil attention to backward compatibility, the docs come
> up short and its list is only a google groups.
>
> ...done. now can we add a bigger header on openlayers.org saying how it
> is related (or not) to ol3js.org?
>
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