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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

Responsive styling with CSS


In the first example, called ch08_css, we will create the layout of our application. We differentiate three styling methods. If the device is a desktop computer, we use regular styling, as in Chapter 2, Applying Custom Styles. If we come through a touch screen device, though, we use different rules for controls. Furthermore, we apply a slightly different style to the application in portrait mode than in landscape mode.

Firstly, we create the required elements in the HTML file in our example:

<body>
    <div id="map" class="map">
        <div id="toolbar" class="toolbar"></div>
    </div>
</body>

This part is more simple than ever before. However, in this case, we create our toolbar inside the map element. We will discuss the importance of this step later in this chapter.

Writing the style sheet

Now that we have our HTML elements in place, let's head to the CSS file in this example. As you can see, we completely removed the map container...