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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

Time for action – creating interactive styles


Now we have the knowledge we need to build our final example. We will add some interactivity to our countries layer by highlighting the country under the mouse with a different style—specifically, we will:

  • Draw the highlighted country with a red outline and semitransparent fill

  • Draw an icon at the center of the highlighted country representing its flag

  • Draw the country's name next to the flag

  1. First, we'll need a new file. Let's start again with the basic country vector layer:

    var countries = new ol.layer.Vector({
      source: new ol.source.GeoJSON({
        projection: 'EPSG:3857',
        url: '../assets/data/countries.geojson'
      })
    });
    var center = ol.proj.transform([0, 0], 'EPSG:4326', 'EPSG:3857');
    var view = new ol.View({
      center: center,
      zoom: 1,
    });
    var map = new ol.Map({
      target: 'map',
      layers: [countries],
      view: view
    });
  2. Next, we'll set up some styles for our highlighted features. This code can go right after the map is defined. Don't worry if...