[OpenLayers-Users] Proof of concept: quikmaps ported to openlayers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 02:28:05AM -0400, Ken Hoetmer wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> After a bit of nudging from a few members of this community, and a bit 
> of start code from Christopher Schmidt, I recently put some effort into 
> porting quikmaps.com from the Google Maps API to OpenLayers.  You can 
> preview the results here:
> 
> http://openlayers.quikmaps.com
> 
> This preview site is backended by the same database as the main site 
> (http://quikmaps.com), so any maps created on one will be accessible via 
> the other.
> Currently, the site works only on Mozilla browsers supporting the 
> <canvas> tag; IE support will need to come as openlayers support for 

Ken: 

Looks great! Any complaints about API? I see that you created a QMap
class that's a wrapper around OpenLayers -- I guess that's so that you
just have to choose between GMap and QMap? 

I'm very impressed. Nice work. Let us know if we can add any
functionality to make things easier for you.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer