OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide

by Erik Hazzard

Overview

This is a beginner's guide with the essential screenshots and clearly explained code, which also serves as a reference. This book is for anyone who has any interest in using maps on their website, from hobbyists to professional web developers. OpenLayers provides a powerful, but easy-to-use, pure JavaScript and HTML (no third-party plug-ins involved) toolkit to quickly make cross-browser web maps. A basic understanding of JavaScript will be helpful, but there is no prior knowledge required to use this book. If you've never worked with maps before, this book will introduce you to some common mapping topics and gently guide you through the OpenLayers library. If you're an experienced application developer, this book will also serve as a reference to the core components of OpenLayers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849514132
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	03/18/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	372
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Erik Hazzard is a web developer - designer, Open Source advocate, and VI user. He loves to learn, teach, and occasionally blogs on his website at http://vasir.net. As a professional web developer of five years, Erik specializes in Python and Javascript, using open source software whenever possible. When he's not developing web applications, he's often developing or designing video games.