OpenLayers 3.x Cookbook. This book will provide users with a variety of recipes that illustrate different features present in OpenLayers 3 - Second Edition

Peter J. Langley, Antonio Santiago Perez

OpenLayers 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.

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

Antonio Santiago Perez, Antonio Santiago

Data 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.