On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 03:53:05PM -0500, Arnie Shore wrote:
Folks, hello, and I wonder if anyone can share experiences doing such
a transition. (I've tried this question with the OpenLayers groups
without response but it was suggested that this group might help.)
Background: I've written a free, Open Source Computer-Aided Dispatch
application targeted to the public safety community, notably ham radio
groups who kick into gear during emergency/crisis conditions. It
relies on GMaps API and imagery currently.
But under emergency conditions which comprise the reasons for this
community's existence, internet connectivity to Google may not exist
of course. Accordingly, I'm planning a version of the app in which
the tile sets and API are resident at a local server. Hence my strong
interest in open solutions.
I can't imagine I'm the only one here doing anything like that, so
I'll appreciate hearing re experiences doing this, plus, especially,
thoughts on the tile sets available. Thanks, all.
Have you considered getting data from the Open Street Map [1] database ?
Freedom for geographical data is unfortunately behind the one for
geographical software, OSM is in my opinion the best attempt at making
this more balanced. It won't provide photos though, only vectorial data.
There are tools to import those data in a postgis database, for later
processing/georeferencing. There are also a few specialized renderers
which you could use to generate static tiles, if all you need is images.
[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org
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