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OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook - Second Edition

By : J. Langley, Antonio Santiago
Book Image

OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook - Second Edition

By: J. Langley, Antonio Santiago

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
8
Index

Chapter 7. Beyond the Basics

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Working with projections
  • Creating a custom control
  • Selecting features by dragging out a selection area
  • Transitioning between weather forecast imagery
  • Using the custom OpenLayers library build
  • Drawing in freehand mode
  • Modifying layer appearance
  • Adding features to the vector layer by dragging and dropping them
  • Making use of map permalinks