ashore wrote: > Given the subject, I expect I deserve to be banned here, but here's > the issue: > > no banning just booing likely ;-) > I've written a free Open Source dispatching application based on GMaps > capabilities. (I'm satisfied that it complies with the TOS.) Since > it's free, it's drawn a good bit of interest fm the 'budget- > challenged' emergency response communities, esp the hams who operate > on a shoestring and provide emergency communications when the 'balloon > has gone up'; like there's no, repeat, no, Internet access. > > So our need is for a source of map data/images that's free/cheap, that > covers the US (at least) to a street-level resolution, and that has a > decent API available. > > The fore-mentioned being what it takes, IMO, to provide for some kind > of mapping capability without the Internet. (By the latter phrase, I > mean that a web server/browser architecture/configuration wd be > satisfactory if it cd operate without Internet access.) > > I've been poking around (Delorme, National Geographic) without > success, but the collective experience here might be able to point me > at possible solutions. Thanks, all. > Open Streetmap, the US portion is largely constructed of US census bureau data with some improvements... free and updating and updateable.
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