OpenLayers Cookbook

Antonio Santiago Perez

Aug 2012 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

This cookbook follows a problem-solution approach to doing important tasks and is packed with examples accompanied by the necessary code and screenshots. 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 cover basic to advanced topics on OpenLayers.

About the author

Antonio is a Computer Science professional with more than ten years of experience in designing and implementing systems. Since the beginning of his professional life, his work has been always related to the world of meteorology while working for different companies as an employee or freelancer. He has good experience in development of systems which collect, store, transform, analyze, and visualize data and is actively interested in any GIS-related technology, with preference for data visualization. His main field of experience is the Java ecosystem, and he has also worked actively with many related web technologies while looking to improve the client side of web applications. He is a firm believer in Software Engineering practices and is a follower of Agile methodologies, involving customers as a main key to the project's success