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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 – using the icon style


As we haven't seen the Icon style before, let's build an example. As we'll need some point data for this example, the earthquake.kml file should be perfect! We'll use the following image sprite and pick the middle dot. This file is included with the code samples that come with the book; you can find it at assets/img/dots.png.

  1. Starting from the previous example, first, we'll create an icon style using our sprite:

    var earthquakeStyle = new ol.style.Style({
      image: new ol.style.Icon({
        anchor: [0.5, 0.5],
        size: [52, 52],
        offset: [52, 0],
        opacity: 1,
        scale: 0.25,
        src: '../assets/img/dots.png'
      })
    });
  2. Next, create the earthquake layer and assign it the style. Because it is a KML file, we'll need to tell OpenLayers to not extract the embedded style information:

    var earthquakes = new ol.layer.Vector({
      source: new ol.source.KML({
        projection: 'EPSG:3857',
        url: '../assets/data/earthquakes.kml',
        extractStyles: false
      }),
      style...