Tag: tricks
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Things I learnt creating a jQuery Plugin (Part I)
jQuery is one of the most used JavaScript libraries, if not the most used one, which allows to make great things with the big set of little tools it offers to the web developers: HTML/DOM…
OpenLayers, create a checkboard layer to know the tile names using Google Charts API
Pyramid tiles are used by many providers as a more efficient way (than WMS server) to provide images. The idea is simple, we have zoom levels and on every level we have NxN tiles of a specific size…
OpenLayers, how compute the tile "name" under the mouse
I have working on a web page using OpenLayers which among others shows a OpenStreetMap layer. The issue is I need to move the mouse over the map and print on a label the tile name in the form of…
Creating static maps in OpenLayers using PhantomJS
Many times in a web mapping application it is desired to save a picture with the current map information.Those who works with Google Maps API has also the \Static Maps API, which works similarly than…