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OpenLayers Cookbook : The Best Method to Learn the Many Ways OpenLayers Can Be Used to Render Data on Maps Is to Dive Straight Into These Recipes. With a Mix of Basic and Advanced Techniques, It's Ideal for JavaScript Novices and Experts Alike.
| Title: | OpenLayers Cookbook : The Best Method to Learn the Many Ways OpenLayers Can Be Used to Render Data on Maps Is to Dive Straight Into These Recipes. With a Mix of Basic and Advanced Techniques, It's Ideal for JavaScript Novices and Experts Alike. |
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| Description: | The best method to learn the many ways OpenLayers can be used to render data on maps is to dive straight into these recipes. With a mix of basic and advanced techniques, it's ideal for JavaScript novices and experts alike.Key FeaturesUnderstand the main concepts about maps, layers, controls, protocols, events etcLearn about the important tile providers and WMS serversPacked with code examples and screenshots for practical, easy learningBook DescriptionData visualization and analysis has become an important task for many companies. Understanding the basic concepts of GIS and knowing how to visualize data on a map is a required ability for many professionals today. OpenLayers is a JavaScript library to load, display, and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.'OpenLayers Cookbook'teaches how to work with OpenLayers, one of the most important and complete open source JavaScript libraries.Through an extensive set of recipes, this book shows how to work with the main concepts required to build a GIS web applicationñ maps, raster and vector layers, styling, theming, and so on.'OpenLayers Cookbook'includes problem solving and how-to recipes for the most common and important tasks. A wide range of topics are covered.The range of recipes includes: creating basic maps, working with raster and vector layers, understanding events and working with main controls, reading features from different data sources, styling features, and understanding the underlying architecture.'OpenLayers Cookbook'describes solutions and optimizations to problems commonly found.What you will learnCreate maps, understand projection and other important propertiesAdd raster and vector layersWork with important tile providersWork with OGCs WMS and WFS compliant serversRead/write features from/to different data sourcesStyle features to improve their visualizationUnderstand events and work with the main controlsWho this book is forIf you are a GIS-related professional with some basic knowledge of web technologies and want to start or gain in-depth knowledge of creating web mapping applications, this book is written for you The recipes are appropriately mixed to suit JavaScript newbies or experts and cover basic to advanced topics on OpenLayers. |
| Authors: | Antonio Santiago |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | JavaScript (Computer program language), Digital mapping, Maps--Computer programs |
| Categories: | COMPUTERS / Information Technology, COMPUTERS / General, COMPUTERS / Internet / General |
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