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OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook - Second Edition
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OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook - Second Edition
About this book
Over 50 comprehensive recipes to help you create spectacular maps with OpenLayers 3About This Bookā¢ Create highly customized mapping apps for the web with rich interactivity and diverse content using JavaScriptā¢ See how successful mapping apps work and how they integrate with third-party servicesā¢ Packed full of code examples, screenshots, and explanations from professionals in the industryWho This Book Is ForIf you are a GIS-related professional with basic knowledge of web technologies and want to gain in-depth knowledge of creating web mapping applications, then this book is for you. The recipes will be appropriately mixed to suit JavaScript beginners or experts and cover basic to advanced topics on OpenLayers.What You Will Learnā¢ Create stunning maps, and understand projectionā¢ Add customized raster and vector layersā¢ Work with important tile providersā¢ Work with OGC, WMS, and WFS compliant serversā¢ Read/write features from/to different data sourcesā¢ Style features to improve their visualizationā¢ Understand events and work with the main controlsā¢ Enhance maps with HTML5 technologies such as GeolocationIn DetailOpenLayers 3 is one of the most important and complete open source JavaScript mapping libraries today.Throughout this book, you will go through recipes that expose various features of OpenLayers 3, allowing you to gain an insight into building complex GIS web applications.You will get to grips with the basics of creating a map with common functionality and quickly advance to more complicated solutions that address modern challenges. You will explore into maps, raster and vector layers, and styling in depth. This book also includes problem solving and how-to recipes for the most common and important tasks.Style and approachThis book teaches you how to create stunning maps that are highly interactive and visually appealing with the help of 50 handpicked recipes. Each recipe will address your need to visualize data on a map. Just follow the steps in the recipes to create maps of your choice in no time.
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OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook Second Edition
Table of Contents
OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Web Mapping Basics
Introduction
Creating a simple fullscreen map
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
Playing with the map's options
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Managing the map's stack layers
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Managing the map's controls
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Moving around the map view
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Restricting the map's extent
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
2. Adding Raster Layers
Introduction
Using Bing imagery
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Using OpenStreetMap imagery
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's more...
See also
Adding WMS layers
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Changing the zoom effect
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Changing layer opacity
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Buffering the layer data to improve map navigation
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Creating an image layer
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Setting the tile size in WMS layers
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
3. Working with Vector Layers
Introduction
Adding a GML layer
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Adding a KML layer
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Creating features programmatically
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Exporting features as GeoJSON
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See alsoā¦
Reading and creating features from a WKT
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Using point features as markers
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Removing or cloning features using overlays
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Zooming to the extent of a layer
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Adding text labels to geometry points
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Adding features from a WFS server
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Using the cluster strategy
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Reading features directly using AJAX
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Creating a heat map
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
4. Working with Events
Introduction
Creating a side-by-side map comparator
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Implementing a work-in-progress indicator for map layers
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Listening for the vector layer features' events
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Listening for mouse or touch events
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Using the keyboard to pan or zoom
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
5. Adding Controls
Introduction
Adding and removing controls
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Working with geolocation
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Placing controls outside the map
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Drawing features across multiple vector layers
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Modifying features
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Measuring distances and areas
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Getting feature information from a data source
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Getting information from a WMS server
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
6. Styling Features
Introduction
Styling layers
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Styling features based on geometry type
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Styling based on feature attributes
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Styling interaction render intents
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Styling clustered features
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
7. Beyond the Basics
Introduction
Working with projections
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Creating a custom control
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Selecting features by dragging out a selection area
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Transitioning between weather forecast imagery
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Using the custom OpenLayers library build
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Drawing in freehand mode
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Modifying layer appearance
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Adding features to the vector layer by dragging and dropping them
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Making use of map permalinks
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Index
OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook Second Edition
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