OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook - Second Edition - Softcover

Peter J. Langley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785287753 ISBN 13: 9781785287756

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

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

Data visualization and analytics has become an important task across all technology-based industries. 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'll 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.

The range of recipes includes: creating basic maps, working with raster and vector layers, understanding events,working with the main controls, reading features from different data sources, styling features, and understanding the underlying architecture. It will also cover solutions and optimizations to challenges commonly faced in modern applications.

What you will learn

• Create stunning maps, and understand projection.
• Add customized raster and vector layers
• Work with important tile providers
• Work with OGCs, 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

About this title

About the Author

Peter J. Langley has been developing websites ever since he owned his first computer. As the influx of available technologies and capabilities in web browsers continues to strengthen, he has been fortunate enough to play a leading role in the software development of some sophisticated solutions, such as web-based mapping applications for Britain's mapping agency, Ordnance Survey.

Peter is passionate about the Internet, computing, and software engineering principles. He enjoys working on engaging projects in vibrant atmospheres that quickly deliver value to consumers. Peter has been sharing how-to guides on his website codechewing.com for many years-a demonstration of his personal desire to encourage people to passionately unite knowledge and thrive from each others' experience, interests, and perspectives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785287753
• ISBN 13: 9781785287756
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 321