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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

Summary


This concludes our chapter on styling vector layers. OpenLayers' styling capabilities are quite simple to implement, but can be incredibly powerful. The basic styles are easy to set up and give you a lot of flexibility in styling your vector features. More complex styling is readily implemented through the use of a style function by allowing you to create basic styles tailored to a specific feature and current zoom level of the map. The building blocks—basic styles and the style function—are simple, but the combination of them allows you to create highly custom cartographic representations for your vector data.

In the next chapter, we will dig into projections and discover how to use them to display both vector and raster layers in different projections.