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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

Adding controls to your map


There are two methods for adding controls to a map:

  • You can pass in a JavaScript array of ol.control.* objects when you instantiate the map object.

  • You can add controls to the map object after it has been created by calling the map function's addControl(), method passing in a single control object. If you need to pass more than one control, just loop using an array of control objects, using the same addControl().

When you create your map, three control objects are added automatically. These three controls are as follows:

  • ol.control.Attribution: This is responsible for displaying credits for producers of map data sources or tiles providers like for OpenStreetMap. By default, the control is located in the bottom-right corner.

  • ol.control.Zoom: This is responsible for showing the plus and minus buttons in the top-left corner. Those buttons when clicking help to do a zoom in for plus and a zoom out for minus.

  • ol.control.Rotate: This is responsible for resetting the map...