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Mastering OpenLayers 3

By : Gábor Farkas
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Mastering OpenLayers 3

By: Gábor Farkas

Overview of this book

OpenLayers 3 allows you to create stunning web mapping and WebGIS applications. It uses modern, cutting edge browser technologies. It is written with Closure Library, enabling you to build browser-independent applications without painful debugging ceremonies, which even have some limited fallback options for older browsers. With this guide, you will be introduced to the world of advanced web mapping and WebGIS. First, you will be introduced to the advanced features and functionalities available in OpenLayers 3. Next, you will be taken through the key points of creating custom applications with OpenLayers 3. You will then learn how to create the web mapping application of yours (or your company's) dream with this open source, expense-free, yet very powerful library. We’ll also show you how to make amazing looking thematic maps and create great effects with canvas manipulation. By the end of this book, you will have a strong command of web mapping and will be well on your way to creating amazing applications using OpenLayers 3.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering OpenLayers 3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with extents


In a WebGIS application, it is especially feasible to have controls to zoom into various extents. Users are used to the luxury of zooming in to a layer or a feature to the maximum extent with a single click. In this example, called ch06_extent, we will implement such zooming capabilities. We will create a tool to zoom into the validity extent of the current projection, one for zooming into the selected layer, and the other to zoom into the selected feature. First, let's make some CSS rules for our new tools:

.toolbar .ol-zoom-extent button {
    background-image: url(../../res/button_zoom_extent.png);
}
.toolbar .ol-zoom-layer button {
    background-image: url(../../res/button_zoom_layer.png);
}
.toolbar .ol-zoom-selected button {
    background-image: url(../../res/button_zoom_selected.png);
}

Creating a zoom control

There is a built-in control in OpenLayers 3 to zoom into various extents. However, the main weakness of ol.control.ZoomToExtent lies in its static nature...