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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 wraps up our overview of the key concepts in the OpenLayers library. We took a quick look at the key components of the library from two different aspects—relationships and inheritance. With the Map class as the central object of any OpenLayers application, we looked at its main relationships to other classes including views, layers, overlays, interactions, and controls. We briefly introduced each of these classes to give an overview of primary purpose. We then investigated inheritance related to these objects and reviewed the super classes that provide functionality to most classes in the OpenLayers library—the Observable and Object classes. The Observable class provides a basic event mechanism and the Object class adds observable properties with a powerful binding feature. Lastly, we looked at the Collection class. Although this isn't part of the inheritance structure, it is crucial to know how one-to-many relationships work throughout the library (including the Map class relationships...