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OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook

This book will provide users with a variety of recipes that illustrate different features present in OpenLayers 3

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jul 2025
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Description

Over 50 comprehensive recipes to help you create spectacular
maps with OpenLayers 3

Key Features

  • Create highly customized mapping apps for the web with rich interactivity and diverse content using JavaScript
  • See how successful mapping apps work and how they integrate with third-party services
  • Packed full of code examples, screenshots, and explanations from professionals in the industry

Book Description

OpenLayers 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.

What you will learn

  • Create stunning maps, and understand
  • projection
  • Add customized raster and vector layers
  • Work with important tile providers
  • Work with OGC, WMS, and WFS
  • compliant servers
  • Read/write features from/to different
  • data sources
  • Style features to improve their visualization
  • Understand events and work with the
  • main controls
  • Enhance maps with HTML5 technologies
  • such as Geolocation

Who this book is for

If 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.

Table of Contents

  1. Web Mapping Basics
  2. Adding Raster Layers
  3. Working with Vector Layers
  4. Working with Events
  5. Adding Controls
  6. Styling Features
  7. Beyond the Basics
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-573-8
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 304
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Programming and languages

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