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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

Modifying and snapping to features


In this example, called ch05_modify, we will customize the remaining feature editing interactions before we go on and create our own. Firstly, we create some further CSS rules for our new controls:

.toolbar .ol-modifyfeat button {
    background-image: url(../../res/button_modifyfeat.png);
}
.toolbar .ol-snap button {
    background-image: url(../../res/button_snap.png);
}

Extending the method

Now that we have the required rules, we can extend our addEditingToolBar method with two additional interactions. As both the modify and the snap interactions accept a collection of features to work with, we go that way and store the selected layer's features in a new collection object:

toolBar.prototype.addEditingToolBar = function () {
    […]
    this.activeFeatures = new ol.Collection();
    var modifyFeature = new ol.control.Interaction({
        label: ' ',
        tipLabel: 'Modify features',
        className: 'ol-modifyfeat ol-unselectable ol-control',
     ...