Chapter 7. Creating Simple Maps

In the previous chapter you learned how to style your layers. You also composed maps by combining more layers. It is now time to learn how you can use maps on the client side.

In this chapter, we will explore how to build client applications with a few JavaScript frameworks. JavaScript is a powerful and widespread language and unsurprisingly it is one of the best choices when developing a web application. We will build some sample maps using Google Maps API (https://developers.google.com/maps/), OpenLayers (http://openlayers.org/), and Leaflet (http://leafletjs.com/)—the new kid on the block. Throughout the chapter we will use a lot of simple yet useful code examples. We're going to use many of the layers you configured in the previous chapters.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Google map with GeoServer layer

• Google map with GeoServer as base layer

• Google map with GeoServer as base layer and Google as overlay

• OpenLayers map with GeoServer layer...