Instant OpenLayers Starter

Web Mapping made simple and fast!

Key Features

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
• Visualize your geographical data
• Integrate with third party map services to create mash-ups
• Stylize and interact with your maps

Book Description

What you will learn

• Learn OpenLayers and what you can expect by using it
• Install and configure a simple web environment to publish your maps
• Use the OpenLayers library in your web projects
• Create a simple web map in no more than a dozen lines of JavaScript code
• Add layers from a variety of different sources, local and remote
• Activate and deactivate layers using scale dependency
• Show a popup with information contained in your spatial data
• Combine styling properties, data retrieving, and representation strategies to make your web maps responsive and readable

Who this book is for

Instant OpenLayers Starter is a book for web designers or GIS specialists with a basic knowledge of JavaScript, for learning how to create simple, embedded, and basic maps, or to build complex data analysis and data management RIAs.