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OpenLayers 3: Beginner's Guide

By : Thomas Gratier, Paul Spencer, Erik Hazzard
Book Image

OpenLayers 3: Beginner's Guide

By: Thomas Gratier, Paul Spencer, Erik Hazzard

Overview of this book

<p>This book is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with all the information you need to get started with mapping using the OpenLayers 3 library.</p> <p>The book starts off by showing you how to create a simple map. Through the course of the book, we will review each component needed to make a map in OpenLayers 3, and you will end up with a full-fledged web map application. You will learn the key role of each OpenLayers 3 component in making a map, and important mapping principles such as projections and layers. You will create your own data files and connect to backend servers for mapping. A key part of this book will also be dedicated to building a mapping application for mobile devices and its specific components.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
OpenLayers 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

OpenLayers issues


Sometimes, you will hit an error without understanding why you encounter it, for example related to a mobile browser's unexpected behavior. Before asking to check mailing lists or IRC, we encourage you to make a small search in the list of issues located at Github https://github.com/openlayers/ol3/issues. You can search issues by milestone, status (opened, closed, etc), or keywords.

IRC

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is another great place to go to if you have questions about OpenLayers. IRC is used for group communication; a big chat room, essentially. If you have exhausted Google, issues' trackers, and the mailing list, IRC provides you in real time with other people interested in OpenLayers.

Generally, the people who hang out in the OpenLayers chat room are very friendly, but please try to find an answer before asking in IRC. The server is irc.freenode.net and the chat room is #openlayers. You can download an IRC client online; a good Windows one is mIRC (http://mirc.com). More information about how to use IRC can be found at http://www.mirc.com/install.html. For beginners, we recommend using Chatzilla, a Firefox Mozilla add—on http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com or CIRC, a Google Chrome add—on http://flackr.github.io/circ/.

When you've installed it, just type irc://irc.freenode.net/openlayers (for Chatzilla only) in your browser address bar, press enter, wait and you're ready to speak on OpenLayers IRC channel.