Guys, thanks heaps for the responses. All truly appreciated. A little better explanation of the situation I'm addressing: I have this web/Gmaps/PHP/MySql application I've written, and the concerns raised in portions of the user community (those oriented to emergency comm's) is that it's all well and good for the 99.999% of the time when situation is normal, but they/we are here for that OTHER time period, when the Internet isn't. And SOME level level of capability is needed then, including some map-based capability even if it's not the whole shebang. In effect, a graceful degradation.
Then, local multi-user operation; Cd be one guy at the server, cd be n locally-connected. (It's the Internet connectivity that's gone, not the across-the-room connections.) I'd love to be able to simply (hah!) port the app'n fm its GMaps components to some other map base, if that other map base cd be self- contained on the server - Internet-free. And keep the PHP/MySql intact to the extent possible. As suggested by Lance Dyas and Barry Hunter, I looked at Open Street Map and Open Layers, and they really do look like they meet the needs, although they look kind of young. And i wish there were some kind of manual/text. (In English; I note the German book.) Fascinating initiatives! Sans Internet, there's be no geo-location function or driving directions presumably, but that'd be livable-with I expect, since it'd be available when Internet connectivity was restored. There'd be a good bit of work in generation the maps where they don't yet exist, but I see a good body of editors available to help do that. Thanks, guys. You've all been a big-time help! AS --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
