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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

Summary


Congratulations! You just created a GUI that is able to modify the layer stack in several ways. In this chapter we learned how to create a simple but fully operational layer tree. We also gained some valuable insight into JavaScript. You might have been familiar with most of the concepts discussed in this chapter. Or, this chapter might have taught you lots of new things. If this is the case, take some rest. You are on your way to not only mastering OpenLayers 3 but also becoming a great frontend developer.

We went through a small subset of the valid compatibility issues with Internet Explorer. It has been developed in its own way for quite a long time, causing quite a lot nuisance for frontend developers. However, most of these problems do not persist in Microsoft Edge.

In the next chapter, we will discuss various vector-data-based concepts. We will take a look at how we can manage vector data effectively by validating attributes, creating input forms, constraining feature types,...