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. <div>
<br></div><div>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...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Richard Greenwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.greenwood@gmail.com">richard.greenwood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Arnie,<br>
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The book doesn't go into great depth but does provide a good, even,<br>
well organized coverage of all of the high level components of<br>
OpenLayers. I wouldn't rate it as "essential reading" as you can get<br>
the same information out of the many OpenLayers examples. But it's<br>
great for a beginner and bound to fill in some cracks in the<br>
intermediate OpenLayers user's knowledge.<br>
<br>
Rich<br>
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Arnie Shore <<a href="mailto:ashore3@verizon.net">ashore3@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'll appreciate anyone's opinion on subject publication, esp for possible<br>
> use by a semi-noob here, who's put up one OSM/OL map so far, and who speaks<br>
> JS OK.<br>
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> AS<br>
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