HSlayers NG
HSLayers-NG is a library which extends OpenLayers 6 functionality by providing a foundation to build map GUI and extra components such as layer manager, permalink generating, styling of vector features, including OpenGIS® Web Map Service Interface Standard (WMS) layers to the map in a user friendly way etc. HSLayers-NG is being built on top of the widely used web development frameworks AngularJS and Bootstrap and is licensed under the MIT license.
The framework offers integration components for the applications:
- Map compositions component
- provides interface to display and load map compositions from
- Micka - stores the metadata of the map compositions
- Layman - provides REST API to access the map compositions
- provides interface to display and load map compositions from
- Datasources component
- loads map layer list and allows user to add them to the map as a new layer
- data source of the layer list can be
- Micka - provides metadata of the layers
- Layman - provides REST API to access the layers
- data source of the layer list can be
- loads map layer list and allows user to add them to the map as a new layer
The following scheme depicts the relations between HSLayers-NG, Micka and Layman.
Example - use case
HSLayers NG is used as a primary map client through Smart Afri Hub portal. See https://www.smartafrihub.com/cs/map1. It can be used to:
- browse through the available thematic map compositions
- add and explore any other GIS data from external sources (WMS, WFS, KML, SHP, GeoJSON formats are supported)
- create/draw own data directly in the map, save and share it with others.
User Manual
The HSLayers-NG library is deployed as an npm package and can be installed in a standard npm way. For a detailed description see https://github.com/hslayers/hslayers-ng/wiki.
