Here is a press release from the geOps website :

geOps releases the source code of OpenLayers Editor under a FreeBSD license. OpenLayers Editor offers a toolbar for precise and efficient editing of geodata in the browser.

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OpenLayers Editor is an easy to use JavaScript library that brings geodata digitizing functions to the browser. Besides basic capturing of point, line and polygon data, OpenLayers Editor supports the upload of shape files, snapping, merging, splitting and validation of geometries.

Via the OSGeo-Discuss list I learned about the release of the open source library MapQuery 0.1. Here's the official mapquery website.

What is MapQuery? "MapQuery is a pure javascript based library which builds upon OpenLayers, jQuery and jQuery UI to provide an easy to use webmapping library. It is meant for jQuery application developers who want to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with maps. Currently it provides a few basic widgets to create functionality around a map and an easy API to write your own widgets."

Here's more on its goals: "MapQuery formally extends OpenLayers, it is similar in concept as GeoExt, but uses jQuery instead of Ext. The idea is to create a jQuery-style webmapping library which wraps around OpenLayers and extends it with functionality like layer managers, datagrids (NYI), legends etc. We try to make it easy to create a webmap-application with OpenLayers, without having to know all that OpenLayers has to offer.

We aim at jQuery developers more than on people who are already well-versed in OpenLayers. As such we will provide a few simple functions which (we think) will be enough for 90% of the use-cases. The other 10% is not actively pursued, though one could directly access OpenLayers and do some of the advanced stuff we're not providing."

Here's the recent geonews in batch mode, covering almost two weeks worth of geonews. I'm voluntarily leaving Esri-related geonews out for an upcoming entry specifically on their user conference.

On the open source front:

• Geomajas 1.9.0 has been released, along with 10 plugins (2 of them new) - here's what is Geomajas
• Here's instructions to load OpenStreetMap data in QGIS
• Here's a comparison of browser windows of QGIS and MapInfo 11
• We mentioned quite a few times the OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide, and here's another review of it

On the Google front:

• Google mentions Historypin now being available worldwide, in which historical photographs are overlayed on Google's StreetView or directly pinned in Google Maps
• Google shared an entry on using Street View to digitally archive Japan’s disaster zones
• Here's tutorial and documentation on the Google Places API
• Here's an entry on Google Map Maker in Pakistan
• Here's the world's longest bridge over water, now open and in Google Earth
• In the trivia category, Slashdot discussed Tilting Bike Uses Google Maps To Simulate Routes

On the Microsoft front:

• Bing Maps got a new user interface (screenshots included)

In the miscellaneous category:

• The FGT blog offers a long and informative update on LightSquared jeopardizing GPS signals in the U.S.
• The FGT blog also mentions the 'Earth Survey Plugin' showing National Geodetic Survey control points near a specific area and much more
• Two weeks ago VerySpatial shared an interesting entry named Cloud Computing Speeds Up And Simplifies the Adoption of Spatial Technology
• The Map Room recommends an old article named Global Impositioning Systems: Is GPS technology actually harming our sense of direction?
• APB mentions Locata, a company offering high-accuracy radio-location technology for where GPS isn't available
• MapTogether links to a The Economist article on gerrymandering and election boundaries in the U.S.
• Ogle Earth informs us that India eased its remote sensing data policy to allow resolutions of up to 1 meter
• Slashdot discussed the story named Geocaching Shuts Down British Town, because of a bomb scare
• The venerable ERS-2 launched in 1995 is getting retired

In the maps category:

• Ogle Earth has an entry on the recently-born South Sudan and its maps and geography
• Slashdot discussed a story named Construction of ESA Galaxy Mapping Satellite Completed
• Here's an entry on mapping the world's sea turtles

Here's the recent geonews in batch mode, covering the last 10 days. From the open source front:

• With GDAL being widely used, here's a comparison of the efficiency of various compression algorithms of GDAL
• Here's an entry on the rule-based styling feature of QGIS
• Here's another review of the OpenLayers 2.10 Beginners Guide by Jody Garnett, a particularly well documented review
• Here's the interesting raw survey results on the priorities of the OSGeo, looks like people want a certification program from the OSGeo
• Here's MapGuide Application Development tips

• Here's an entry named Demystifying The Esri Landsat Image Services And ChangeMatters Viewer

• O'Reilly offers an entry on Google Correlate, named Your data, Google's computing power, with an example using US state-based data
• Here's tips on building useful tours in Google Earth
• Here's their official entry on the latest imagery update for Google Earth / Maps

• There's a series of entries on the new GeoCommons 2.0, with details and screenshots, some aggregated highlights,  and how GeoCommons can work with Google Fusion Tables
• TMR informs us Pentax announced a GPS unit for its Digital SLRs
• Here's an entry on the updated MapQuest Android app
• TMR informs us that Garmin added cameras to the GPSMAP 62 Series and announced new eTrex and Rino GPS units
• Here's an discussion on the evolution of monolithic vs. distributed architectures in GIS
• V1 discusses how Greece economic woes partly come from lack of maps and GIS
• V1 also offers a perspective named How Do Geographic Information, Mapping and GIS Connect with News Media Today?

• TMR links to an interactive map of pedestrian deaths in the U.S. down to the local level with StreetView of where the deaths have occurred. From to, 47,700 pedestrians were killed in the United States
• Here's a dramatic map of the state of fish stock in the Atlantic
• TMR links to a map of measles cases across Europe
• NASA released a new map of carbon stored in tropical forests

ThinkGeo has updated all of the products in their Map Suite line this month to version 5.0 and has included a variety of new features, many of which are aimed at making their GIS software suite compatible with a wider range of data types, including TAB and projection metadata (PRJ). There's also built-in support for Bing Maps in every product, and the Map Suite Web Edition product gets upgraded to OpenLayers 2.10 and Google Maps API version 3. The full release details have been posted on ThinkGeo's developer blog. The company has also invited the community to submit and vote on suggestions for enhancements to future releases of Map Suite, for which they have set up a site called the ThinkGeo Enhancement Tracker. You don't have to log in or anything, so it's easy to head over there and vote on stuff you think Map Suite needs.

Geoweb Guru offers a review of OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide by Erik Hazzard. From the review: "The book is written as a tutorial but also includes API reference material. The author does a good job of blending these two approaches. Each section of discussion and reference text is followed by "Time for action" (implementation example), "What just happened?" (explanation), and "Have a go hero" (exercise suggestions for modifying the code). [...] In contrast, the chapter on FireBug is welcome. It is only an introduction, but many web developers (myself included) tend to hack Javascript with nothing more than a text editor." We regularly mention OpenLayers.

Here's the recent geonews that we haven't already mentioned in batch mode. In addition to last Friday's FOSS4G geonews:

• There's a new open source Microsoft Bing Maps Android SDK available
• MapFish 2.1 has been released, and it's now BSD-licensed instead of GPL
• Here's news of what's coming for OpenLayers 2.11
• Shapely 1.2.9 has been released

• The FGT blog is excited about Voyager, a tool to catalog and search your local geospatial datasets (free and paid version available)
• Several sources have mentioned that the U.S. data and other open sites are closing
• Kurt offers an entry on the U.S. marine cadastre
• There's a first GLONASS smartphone available in Russia
• I smiled when I read the newly introduced "NoGIS" term, remisnescent of WebGIS and neogeography, James Fee shares what he thinks of it
• Slashdot discusses ESA's GOCE satellite detailed information about the Earth's gravitational shape
• If you're that curious, the last Google imagery update included the set from the upcoming 'The Hobbit' movie shot in New Zealand
• The Geonames blog shares an update on the geolocation of Wikipedia articles and Wikipedia Web Services

• TMR links to NYT day-by-day situation map of the Libyan uprising
• JF mentions a nice Census map analysis of New York City using Google Fusion Tables
• Here's a map of Canada's ridings for the national election early next month
• TMR also shares a map of the decline of ozone in the Arctic
• The prolefic TMR also mentioned the book "Railway Maps of the World"
• Ok, maybe not newsworthy, but here's 25 Mind-Blowing Aerial Photographs Around the World

Here's the Friday geonews in batch mode. From the open source / open data front:

• There was a recent OpenLayers Mobile Code Sprint
• The Map Room shares an interesting entry on the suboptimal state of OpenStreetMap in Canada
• OpenStreetMap now has over 30 Million building outlines worldwide
• Here's an entry on generating contour lines in QGIS

• I'm amonst the many that got the email that informs us that ArcGIS Online map services are available at no cost regardless of use
• geogeek shares a short list of the ArcGIS Server Virtualisation … The Do’s And Don’ts
• The FGT blog has teo entries named useful ArcGIS Explorer Add-Ins I and useful ArcGIS Explorer Desktop Add-Ins II

• James Fee links to a discussion on whether WMS is dying or not
• APB mentions that Samsung's planning to Use Earth’s Magnetic Field for indoor Device Locating
• MapQuest unveiled their free Android app
• The Blackberry Playbook tablet will be getting this geospatial app: Mobile OpenScales GIS
• Here's a generic presentation on neo-geopolitics
• Using Bing, there's a new Celebrity Places web map
• Mapperz made me aware of the 'Rain alarm map', to give you alerts of incoming rain or snow
• The free GeoTrans Coordinate Converter is now at version 3.1

• TMR links to a map of world alcohol consumption
• Here's a link to an updated International Marine Piracy Map
• SS share an entry on Mapping Threatened Coral Reefs

Announced on the OpenLayers Users email list : 

"It is now possible to visit the Mobile Examples for OpenLayers directly by going to: -- Chris"

Maperitive is a free desktop application for drawing maps based on OpenStreetMap and GPS data. It is a simple to use alternative to renderers like Mapnik. It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. One of the more powerful features is scripting support which enables automating various map rendering processes, like generating Web tiles and uploading them to an FTP server. Features include:

• text-based stylesheets
• generates relief contours
• hillshading and slopeshading
• elevation coloring
• GPX support
• OSM web maps browsing
• export to PNG, JPG & others
• OziExplorer and Google Earth support
• export to SVG (Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator)
• web tiles generator
• data query language
• automatic scripting support