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OpenLayers Cookbook

OpenLayers Cookbook

By : Antonio Santiago
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OpenLayers Cookbook

OpenLayers Cookbook

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By: Antonio Santiago

Overview of this book

Data visualization and analysis has become an important task for many companies. Understanding the basic concepts of GIS and knowing how to visualize data on a map is a required ability for many professionals today. OpenLayers is a JavaScript library to load, display, and render maps from multiple sources on web pages."OpenLayers Cookbook" teaches how to work with OpenLayers, one of the most important and complete open source JavaScript libraries.Through an extensive set of recipes, this book shows how to work with the main concepts required to build a GIS web applicationñ maps, raster and vector layers, styling, theming, and so on."OpenLayers Cookbook" includes problem solving and how-to recipes for the most common and important tasks. A wide range of topics are covered.The range of recipes includes: creating basic maps, working with raster and vector layers, understanding events and working with main controls, reading features from different data sources, styling features, and understanding the underlying architecture."OpenLayers Cookbook" describes solutions and optimizations to problems commonly found.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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OpenLayers Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Index

Implementing a work in progress indicator for map layers


In the art of creating great applications, the most important thing to take into account is the user experience. A good application does what it must do, but by making the user feel comfortable.

When working with remote server, most of the time the user is waiting for data retrieval. For example, when working with a WMS layer, every time we change the zoom level, the user has to wait for some seconds till data is obtained from the server and the tiles start rendering.

It would be great to show some feedback to the users by using an icon, a progress bar, and so on, to inform that the application is working but needs some time.

This recipe shows how we can give some feedback to the user by informing when the application is loading content from different servers, making use of some layer events.

Note

Like in many other recipes in this book, we have used the Dojo toolkit framework (http://dojotoolkit.org) for a better user experience....

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