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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

Time for action – creating a Stamen layer


Follow these steps to create a Stamen layer:

  1. We can access the Stamen layer from the outside of the box. This will be pretty simple. First, we just need to create a layer object:

      var stamenLayer = new ol.layer.Tile({
        source: new ol.source.Stamen({
          layer: 'toner'
        })
      });
  2. Then, we just construct the map directly, adding the view and the layer already configured at startup:

      var map = new ol.Map({

        layers: [stamenLayer],
        target: 'map',
        view: new ol.View({
         center: ol.proj.transform([2.35239, 48.858391], 'EPSG:4326', 'EPSG:3857'),
          zoom: 12
        })
      });
  3. You should see something like the following screenshot:

What just happened?

The map we've just created shows a black and white Stamen layer. You can look at other available layers for Stamen, the list is available just after the Stamen Layers' properties below.

Stamen source class properties

Stamen source class refers to the beautiful tiles from Stamen. You can declare...