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    Instant OpenLayers Starter
    Instant OpenLayers Starter
    Instant OpenLayers Starter
    Ebook104 pages37 minutes

    Instant OpenLayers Starter

    By Alessio Di Lorenzo and Giovanni Allegri

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    Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks.A quick and simple Starter to working with the OpenLayers JavaScript library architecture, helping you become productive with it in a very short time. Instant OpenLayers Starter is a book for web designers or GIS specialists with a basic knowledge of JavaScript, for learning how to create simple, embedded, and basic maps, or to build complex data analysis and data management RIAs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateApr 25, 2013
    ISBN9781782165118
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      Instant OpenLayers Starter - Alessio Di Lorenzo

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      Instant OpenLayers Starter

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      1. Instant OpenLayers Starter

      So, what is OpenLayers?

      Installation

      Step 1 – What do I need?

      Step 2 – Downloading OpenLayers

      Step 3 – Unpacking OpenLayers

      Step 4 – Serving the library

      And that's it!

      Quick start – Creating your first web map

      Step 1 – Organizing your workspace

      Step 2 – Creating the HTML template

      Step 3 – Including the OpenLayers library

      Step 4 – Defining an initialization JavaScript function

      Step 5 – Creating the map

      Top features you need to know about

      Adding an image overlay

      Using Google Maps, OSM, and Bing as base layers

      Using layers from OGC WMS services

      Obtaining information about the mapped features from WMS servers

      Using data from tile servers

      Adding interaction controls

      Adding a vector overlay

      Creating a vector layer from GeoJSON data

      Obtaining vector data from WFS and transforming coordinates with Proj4js

      Adding a vector overlay from GeoRSS

      Showing feature attributes in a pop up

      Creating a thematic map

      Using strategies and attribute replacement

      People and places you should get to know

      Official site and documentation

      Community channels

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      Instant OpenLayers Starter

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      First published: April 2013

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      Credits

      Authors

      Alessio Di Lorenzo

      Giovanni Allegri

      Reviewer

      Antonio Santiago

      Acquisition Editor

      Usha Iyer

      Commissioning Editor

      Neha Nagwekar

      Technical Editor

      Prasad Dalvi

      Project Coordinator

      Amigya Khurana

      Proofreader

      Joel T. Johnson

      Production Coordinator

      Melwyn Dsa

      Cover Work

      Melwyn Dsa

      Cover Image

      Abhinash Sahu

      About the Authors

      Alessio Di Lorenzo is a Marine Biologist and an MSc in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing. Now he is living in Pescara, Italy, the place where he was born in October 1979.

      One fine day, looking for suitable tools to represent and analyze the environmental phenomena, he discovered GIS and decided that it was worthwhile to investigate the topic. By mixing his personal interest in computer science, open source software, and programming languages with the spatial knowledge, he has concentrated more and more on Web Mapping and Web GIS.

      Nowadays, he works as a consultant and trainer for local and central governments and various organizations. Most of his experience concerns the use of geospatial and web technologies to study and manage data from emergency and monitoring plans in the environmental,

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