OpenLayers Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Web Mapping Basics
• Introduction
• Creating a simple full screen map
• Different ways to include OpenLayers
• Understanding base and non-base layers
• Avoiding the need of a base layer
• Playing with the map's options
• Managing map's stack layers
• Managing map's controls
• Moving around the map view
• Restricting the map extent

• Chapter 2: Adding Raster Layers
• Introduction
• Using Google Maps imagery
• Using Bing imagery
• Adding WMS layer
• Wrapping the date line options
• Changing the zoom effect
• Changing the layer opacity
• Using WMS with single tile mode
• Buffering the layer data to improve the map navigation
• Creating an image layer
• Setting the tile size in WMS layers

• Chapter 3: Working with Vector Layers
• Introduction
• Adding a GML layer
• Adding a KML layer
• Creating features programmatically
• Reading and creating features from a WKT
• Adding markers to the map
• Using point features as markers
• Working with popups
• Adding features from a WFS server
• Using the cluster strategy
• Filtering features in WFS requests
• Reading features directly using Protocols

• Chapter 4: Working with Events
• Introduction
• Creating a side-by-side map comparator
• Implementing a work in progress indicator for map layers
• Listening for vector layer features' events
• Listening for non-OpenLayers events

• Chapter 5: Adding Controls
• Introduction
• Adding and removing controls
• Adding a navigation history control
• Working with geolocation
• Placing controls outside the map
• Editing features on multiple vector layers
• Modifying features
• Measuring distances and areas
• Getting feature information from data source
• Getting information from the WMS server

• Chapter 6: Theming
• Introduction
• Understanding how themes work using the img folder
• Understanding how themes work using the theme folder
• Delimiting tiles in a raster layer
• Creating a new OpenLayers theme
• Starting actions outside the controls

• Chapter 7: Styling Features
• Introduction
• Styling features using symbolizers
• Improving style using StyleMap and the replacement of feature's attributes
• Playing with StyleMap and the render intents
• Working with unique value rules
• Defining custom rules to style features
• Styling clustered features

• Chapter 8: Beyond the Basics
• Introduction
• Working with projections
• Retrieving remote data with OpenLayers.Request
• Creating a custom control
• Creating a custom renderer
• Selecting features intersecting with a line
• Making an animation with image layers

• Index