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| OpenLayers3 | cesium | |
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| 60 | 1 | |
| 10,858 | 6,577 | |
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| 9.9 | 9.4 | |
| 9 days ago | about 3 years ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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OpenLayers3
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Zooming User Interface (ZUI)
You probably know this, but in Google Maps at least, you can use browser zoom (ctrl/cmd +/-) to change the size of labels without zooming into the actual map.
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Speaking of maps, I got to work a fun zoom project a few years ago: https://map.fieldmuseum.org/
We used https://openlayers.org/ and thought long and hard about how to best handle zooming and variable levels of information density & visual hierarchy. If you zoom all the way out, we just highlight where the building is relative to the surroundings. As you start to zoom in, we start to highlight major exhibitions and entrances. Then as you zoom in more, we start showing recommended paths, smaller exhibitions, etc. The label sizes try to scale up and down at each level, smoothly, in order to balance readability and density.
Eventually you can reach the max zoom level and the labels will just grow bigger and bigger, but the SVGs dynamically shrink so they remain pictograms and not just contextless-lines.
Then if you keep going, you eventually find microscopic easter eggs :)
The code is pretty jank (and abandoned), but it's FOSS vanilla JS/HTML/CSS, and the only dependency is on OpenLayers: https://github.com/arcataroger/openlayers_indoor_map
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Handling files in enterprise web solutions
In order to display the GeoJSON features on a map, we will use OpenLayers, which is a very powerful open-source mapping library that is also very simple to use.
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5 JavaScript mapping APIs compared
OpenLayers is available via the ol npm package, offering developers a powerful toolkit for creating sophisticated maps. Here is a JavaScript implementation that utilizes OpenLayers to showcase a map:
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12 Open Source GIS Software
Official Website: https://openlayers.org/
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I'm a senior in my CS major and it's incredible I didn't hear about GIS projects until now. Glad to be here.
For web maps I'd strongly recommend using OpenLayers. While it's less convenient to get started with compared to the alternatives it's also much more feature-complete and you'll likely hit a ceiling in terms of functionality much later than you would with the others.
- OpenLayers: High-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs
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cesium
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Top Javascript Maps API and Libraries
Web-site: https://cesiumjs.org/ GitHub stars: 5.8k, https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium Pricing: Free Map Data Source: Cesium Dependencies: None License: Apache License 2.0 Category: Library Examples: https://cesiumjs.org/demos/
What are some alternatives?
Leaflet - 🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦
mapbox-gl-js - Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in the browser, powered by vector tiles and WebGL
maplibre-gl-js - MapLibre GL JS - Interactive vector tile maps in WebGL2
3DTilesRendererJS - Renderer for 3D Tiles in Javascript using three.js
Cesium - An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas:
terriajs - A library for building rich, web-based geospatial data platforms.
vue3-openlayers - Web map Vue 3.x components with the power of OpenLayers
jQuery-Mapael - jQuery plugin based on raphael.js that allows you to display dynamic vector maps
mapbox.js - Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin
3d-tiles - Specification for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets :earth_americas:
Highcharts JS - Highcharts JS, the JavaScript charting framework