OpenLayers cookbook / Antonio Santiago Perez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perez, Antonio Santiago.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

JavaScript (Computer program language).

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over 60 recipes to create GIS web applications with the open source JavaScript library

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Web Mapping Basics; Introduction; Creating a simple full screen map; Different ways to include OpenLayers; Understanding base and non-base layers; Avoiding the need of a base layer; Playing with the map's options; Managing map's stack layers; Managing map's controls; Moving around the map view; Restricting the map extent; Chapter 2: Adding Raster Layers; Introduction; Using Google Maps imagery; Using Bing imagery; Adding WMS layer; Wrapping the date line options

Changing the zoom effectChanging the layer opacity; Using WMS with single tile mode; Buffering the layer data to improve the map navigation; Creating an image layer; Setting the tile size in WMS layers; Chapter 3: Working with Vector Layers; Introduction; Adding a GML layer; Adding a KML layer; Creating features programmatically; Reading and creating features from a WKT; Adding markers to the map; Using point features as markers; Working with popups; Adding features from a WFS server; Using the cluster strategy; Filtering features in WFS requests; Reading features directly using Protocols

Chapter 4: Working with EventsIntroduction; Creating a side-by-side map comparator; Implementing a work in progress indicator for map layers; Listening for vector layer features' events; Listening for non-OpenLayers events; Chapter 5: Adding Controls; Introduction; Adding and removing controls; Adding a navigation history control; Working with geolocation; Placing controls outside the map; Editing features on multiple vector layers; Modifying features; Measuring distances and areas; Getting feature information from data source; Getting information from the WMS server; Chapter 6: Theming

IntroductionUnderstanding how themes work using the img folder; Understanding how themes work using the theme folder; Delimiting tiles in a raster layer; Creating a new OpenLayers theme; Starting actions outside the controls; Chapter 7: Styling Features; Introduction; Styling features using symbolizers; Improving style using StyleMap and the replacement of feature's attributes; Playing with StyleMap and the render intents; Working with unique value rules; Defining custom rules to style features; Styling clustered features; Chapter 8: Beyond the Basics; Introduction; Working with projections

Retrieving remote data with OpenLayers.RequestCreating a custom control; Creating a custom renderer; Selecting features intersecting with a line; Making an animation with image layers; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613906397

9781283593946

1283593947

9781849517850

1849517851

OCLC:

823244321