[OT] Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Herouth Maoz
Quoting Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The strange thing is that the online site should be cheaper for them to operate. Selling physical books has huge overheads - the raw materials, the printing presses, the commisions the stores stake (probably as much as 50% of the price of the book); All

Re: [OT] Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003, Herouth Maoz wrote about [OT] Re: linux compatible online maps site?: The strange thing is that the online site should be cheaper for them to operate. Selling physical books has huge overheads - the raw materials, .. You're not in the GIS business, are you? First of all

Re: [OT] Re: linux compatible online maps site?

2003-09-24 Thread linux-il
Nadav Har'El wrote: All they needed to do when they opened the online version is to do some format conversions, build a server farm, create some customer-tracking mechanism (passwords, credit cards, whatever) and create some scripts to display those maps online. Perhaps they also needed to buy