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Mastering OpenLayers 3

By : Gábor Farkas
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Mastering OpenLayers 3

By: Gábor Farkas

Overview of this book

OpenLayers 3 allows you to create stunning web mapping and WebGIS applications. It uses modern, cutting edge browser technologies. It is written with Closure Library, enabling you to build browser-independent applications without painful debugging ceremonies, which even have some limited fallback options for older browsers. With this guide, you will be introduced to the world of advanced web mapping and WebGIS. First, you will be introduced to the advanced features and functionalities available in OpenLayers 3. Next, you will be taken through the key points of creating custom applications with OpenLayers 3. You will then learn how to create the web mapping application of yours (or your company's) dream with this open source, expense-free, yet very powerful library. We’ll also show you how to make amazing looking thematic maps and create great effects with canvas manipulation. By the end of this book, you will have a strong command of web mapping and will be well on your way to creating amazing applications using OpenLayers 3.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering OpenLayers 3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Extending OpenLayers 3


In the previous examples, we worked hard to reduce the size of the library by cutting out some irrelevant parts. Now, let's do the contrary and extend the library with additional functionality. Remember the example where we measured distance on an ellipsoid? We used the debug library of an older OpenLayers 3 version to achieve this. Now, we will build the ol.Ellipsoid class in our next custom build. You can find a JavaScript file, named ellipsoid.js, in the examples folder and an example named ch10_test_ellispsoid. The latter is the exact copy of ch05_measure with ch05_measure_vincenty.js. First, open up ellipsoid.js. This is how a well-structured code looks from the aspect of the Closure Compiler. There are headers everywhere with type definitions and additional information. These headers are written in the syntax of JSDoc, but JSDoc and Closure Compiler go hand in hand.

The first part of the code resolves the dependencies of this constructor and provides a name for...