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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

Using Spherical Mercator raster data with other layers


Getting other layers to play nicely with these layers involve three things. These rules are also available for others projections:

  • Set up the correct map projection properties, in this case, the default is already the right projection.

  • Make sure that projection layer is set to the right EPSG code (most tiles' layers also use the right projection) and are available on the third-party map layer.

  • Ensure all raster layers (any non-Vector or Image layer), such as WMS, are in the map's projection. In this case, we'll need to make sure we ask our WMS server for map tiles in the EPSG:3857 projection.

Using what we've learned so far, let's make a mashup. We'll use OSM derived layers with Bing Maps layer and put at the top a WMS layer. We will also set a small layer switcher (as there is no available component in OpenLayers core code for this).