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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

Creating a WebGL map


In the first example, called ch07_webgl, we will create our first WebGL map. We bring our application to its limits, displaying more than 200,000 points on a single map. If you haven't performed this test already, you must be thinking that the magnitude of features will render our application totally unresponsive and useless. Let's make an attempt to perform this test, though. For this example, we only have to modify our map constructor using our new vector layer and the WebGL renderer:

var map = new ol.Map({
    target: 'map',
    layers: [
        […]
        new ol.layer.Vector({
            source: new ol.source.Vector({
                format: new ol.format.GeoJSON({
                    defaultDataProjection: 'EPSG:4326'
                }),
                url: '../../res/switzerland_points_osm.geojson',
                attributions: [
                    new ol.Attribution({
                        html: 'Switzerland Points © OpenStreetMap Contributors'
       ...