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OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide Create, optimize, and deploy stunning cross-browser web maps with the OpenLayers JavaScript web mapping library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
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ISBN-13 9781849514125
Length 372 pages
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OpenLayers 2.10
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with OpenLayers FREE CHAPTER 2. Squashing Bugs With Firebug 3. The 'Layers' in OpenLayers 4. Wrapping Our Heads Around Projections 5. Interacting with Third Party APIs 6. Taking Control of Controls 7. Styling Controls 8. Charting the Map Class 9. Using Vector Layers 10. Vector Layer Style Guide 11. Making Web Map Apps Index

Time for Action – setting up Proj4js.org


This step is similar to the way we set up OpenLayers.

  1. Download Proj4js from http://trac.osgeo.org/proj4js/wiki/Download. At the time of writing, the latest version was proj4js-1.0.1.zip, so go ahead and download it (or whichever the latest version is).

  2. Extract it and copy the proj4js folder to your root code directory (the folder where your OpenLayers.js file is located).

  3. Add the following line in the <head> section of your code after the OpenLayers library inclusion code.

    <script type='text/javascript' src="proj4js/lib/proj4js-combined.js"></script>
  4. Now, open up the page and start Firebug. Type and run the following:

    var test_proj = new Proj4js.Proj('EPSG:4325');
    console.log(test_proj);
  5. You should see output that looks like the following:

    Object { srsCodeInput="EPSG:4325", more...}
    

What Just Happened?

We just included the Proj4js library and tested to see if it worked. If you received an error when you attempted to call new Proj4js.Proj...

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