On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > I am not sure what format exactly our GIS is in. I know our > cartographer uses some level of ESRI's desktop GIS tools. I am trying > to get more specifics from him. > > At the least we would like to have something like a Google Map (but we > are open to any option at this time) user interface where users can > navigate and zoom around our data that covers something like 2 million > square miles.
Have you checked MapServer: http://mapserver.org/ > Overlaying it with another source so that data exists > outside the borders of our data would be a nice bonus, but apparently > complicates issues tremendously. Depends on how your source data is organized. For instance, if your source data is stored in a compatible geometric datatype column in a database it should be pretty easy to extract polygons from that. Polygons are easy to draw on top of the Google Maps API. Jochem -- Jochem van Dieten http://jochem.vandieten.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318246 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
