If 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 covers basic to advanced topics on OpenLayers.
This cookbook follows a problem–solution approach to doing important tasks and is packed with examples accompanied by the necessary code and screenshots.
OpenLayers Cookbook
includes problem solving and how to do recipes for many common and less common 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.
describes solutions and optimizations to problems commonly found.
teaches how to work with OpenLayers, one of the most important and complete open source JavaScript libraries.
Through extensive sets of recipes, this book shows how to work with the main concepts required to build a GIS web application—maps, raster and vectorial layers, styling, theming, and so on.