Meetup Openlayers 2019-02-06

Simple boilerplate for experimenting with the new OpenLayers 5.3.0.

1. Clone or download

git clone https://github.com/tssmits/20190206openlayers.git

Alternatively you can download the repository.

2. Ad hoc http static server

To properly display everything in your browser, you need to serve the html from an http server. You can spin up a server easily if you have PHP installed:

cd src
php -S localhost:1234

Or Python:

cd src

# python 2
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

# python 3
python -m http.server 8000

Then visit http://localhost:1234 in your favorite browser.

Don't have PHP? No fear! See https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255 for a list of one-liners that start a static server.

Of course, you can also use your LAMP/XAMPP stack or plain old Apache if you have them installed.

3. Have fun hacking!

Now you should see a simple map in your browser. Edit src/index.html to change the appearance of the map.