It's a fairly conventional Computer-Aided-Dispatch app'n. A emergency response team has members or vehicles at known locations, and an incident is reported at location x, a street/highway address. The latter is geocoded, and directions from the nearest unit is presented, but other units may be clicked-on, with directions shown.
There's a good bit of database work associated with both response-unit and incident data, for status, performance reporting etc. Automatic notification is included, by email and/or cell/text, on events associated with each. (In effect, the application is a version of an IT ticket-writing one, which in fact, it originally was. I added the m,apping functionality and expanded the other stuff as needed. AS On Oct 29, 6:14 pm, boomerbubba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still don't understand what the functionality of your application > is, beyond just viewing some maps. > > Could you at least summarize that, and even post a link to your > existing public web site? > > On Oct 29, 6:01 pm, ashore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
