OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook : This Book Will Provide Users with a Variety of Recipes That Illustrate Different Features Present in OpenLayers 3

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Title: OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook : This Book Will Provide Users with a Variety of Recipes That Illustrate Different Features Present in OpenLayers 3
Description: Over 50 comprehensive recipes to help you create spectacular maps with OpenLayers 3Key Features[•]Create highly customized mapping apps for the web with rich interactivity and diverse content using JavaScript[•]See how successful mapping apps work and how they integrate with third-party services[•]Packed full of code examples, screenshots, and explanations from professionals in the industryBook DescriptionOpenLayers 3 is one of the most important and complete open source JavaScript mapping libraries today. Throughout this book, you will go through recipes that expose various features of OpenLayers 3, allowing you to gain an insight into building complex GIS web applications. You will get to grips with the basics of creating a map with common functionality and quickly advance to more complicated solutions that address modern challenges. You will explore into maps, raster and vector layers, and styling in depth. This book also includes problem solving and how-to recipes for the most common and important tasks.What you will learn[•] Create stunning maps, and understandprojection[•]Add customized raster and vector layers[•]Work with important tile providers[•]Work with OGC, WMS, and WFScompliant servers[•]Read/write features from/to differentdata sources[•]Style features to improve their visualization[•]Understand events and work with themain controls[•]Enhance maps with HTML5 technologiessuch as GeolocationWho this book is forIf you are a GIS-related professional with basic knowledge of web technologies and want to gain in-depth knowledge of creating web mapping applications, then this book is for you. The recipes will be appropriately mixed to suit JavaScript beginners or experts and cover basic to advanced topics on OpenLayers.
Authors: Peter J. Langley, Antonio Santiago
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Maps--Computer programs, JavaScript (Computer program language), Digital mapping
Categories: COMPUTERS / Languages / JavaScript, COMPUTERS / Computer Science, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Programming
Database: eBook Index
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ISBN:9781785287756
9781785285738