[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide - Useful?

[Nicholas Efremov-Kendall]

I agree, it's a good overview of some of the basics of OL and as Rich said
goes into the high-level components. Like a lot of programming books it
provides you the basics, with one example application with the
'dots-connected,' showing you how to build a Flickr/OL mashup. If you're a
noob, you'll definitely learn from the book, but it's by no means an
end-all, be-all.

For web-mapping concepts, I highly recommend 'Mapscripting 101', which
although it focuses mostly on Google and Yahoo (now defunct) mapping APIs it
does a really good job of introducing concepts that can easily be
transferred to OL once you wrap you're head around them. It also introduces
the Mapstraction JS, which to some extent works with OL, but I think it's
useful for introducing a lot of web-mapping concepts which aren't spelled
out elsewhere (i.e. geocoding, creating/using geodatabases, geolocation,
etc). It doesn't cover all of these subjects in great detail, but it's more
oriented on web-mapping concepts, rather than getting far under the hood
with one or another library...

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Richard Greenwood <
richard.greenwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> Arnie,
>
> The book doesn't go into great depth but does provide a good, even,
> well organized coverage of all of the high level components of
> OpenLayers. I wouldn't rate it as "essential reading" as you can get
> the same information out of the many OpenLayers examples. But it's
> great for a beginner and bound to fill in some cracks in the
> intermediate OpenLayers user's knowledge.
>
> Rich
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Arnie Shore <ashore3 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I'll appreciate anyone's opinion on subject publication, esp for possible
> > use by a semi-noob here, who's put up one OSM/OL map so far, and who
> speaks
> > JS OK.
> >
> > AS
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