Creating Simple Maps

In Chapter 6, Styling Your Layers, 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 the 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 will 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...