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GetFeatureInfo example
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This example shows how to trigger WMS GetFeatureInfo requests on click for a WMS image layer.
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+goog.require('ol.Map');
+goog.require('ol.RendererHint');
+goog.require('ol.View2D');
+goog.require('ol.layer.Tile');
+goog.require('ol.source.TileWMS');
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+var wmsSource = new ol.source.TileWMS({
+ url: 'http://demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/wms',
+ params: {'LAYERS': 'ne:ne'}
+});
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+var wmsLayer = new ol.layer.Tile({
+ source: wmsSource
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+var view = new ol.View2D({
+ center: [0, 0],
+ zoom: 1
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+var viewProjection = /** @type {ol.proj.Projection} */
+ (view.getProjection());
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+var map = new ol.Map({
+ layers: [wmsLayer],
+ renderer: ol.RendererHint.CANVAS,
+ target: 'map',
+ view: view
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+map.on('singleclick', function(evt) {
+ document.getElementById('info').innerHTML = '';
+ var viewResolution = /** @type {number} */ (view.getResolution());
+ var url = wmsSource.getGetFeatureInfoUrl(
+ evt.getCoordinate(), viewResolution, viewProjection,
+ {'INFO_FORMAT': 'text/html'});
+ if (url) {
+ document.getElementById('info').innerHTML =
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+});