terrestris GmbH & Co. KG

Mobile Web Applications with GeoExt Mobile (GXM)

About terrestris

terrestris is a company that builds top-notch geospatial solutions using the best open source software. We participate in enhancing our base software and provide software development, training and consulting for our customers. Please contact us for details

License

This workshop is freely available for use and re-use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Feel free to use this material, but retain the terrestris branding, logos and style.

Mobile Web Applications with GeoExt Mobile (GXM)ΒΆ

Welcome to the workshop “Mobile Web Applications with GeoExt Mobile (GXM)”. This workshop is designed to introduce GXM as a mobile web mapping frontend to OGC Web Services (OWS) and other datasources supported by OpenLayers.

This workshop is presented as a set of modules. In each module the reader will perform a set of tasks designed to achieve a specific goal for that module. Each module builds upon lessons learned in previous modules and is designed to iteratively build up the reader’s knowledge base.

The following modules will be covered in this workshop:

GXM Basics
Learn how to create a fullscreen map with a WMS layer.
GXM Layers
Learn how to interact with the different layers of your map.
GXM Buttons
Create buttons to enrich your mobile application by custom UIs.
GXM Vector-Features
How to work with vector data on your map, e.g visualize the result of a redlining layer.