Hello Arnie, My company is a world map data vendor currently working with Mapnik tile rendering displayed with OpenLayers. It's the same small scale data that's used in Google Earth/Maps and numerous other services. We've got our data working well which would take you down to a reasonable zoom level with a tile volume that would not be a burden on a disconnected machine. We plan to make this available as a commercial pre-rendered TMS tile set for OpenLayers. Licence costs are yet to be finalised but will be pretty low in comparison with taking commercial vector data. We have one customer who is trialling our data with OSM for street level views in the areas available. This give global completeness at small scale and good (but limited) street level coverage.
If you're only looking for coverage of the US, you will have a few data options available. However, if you may need something international in the future, please do get in touch and I'll arrange access to a tile set. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd. http://www.europa.uk.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arnie Shore Sent: 05 January 2009 19:20 Cc: [email protected] Subject: [OpenLayers-Users] Recommendations for Map data? Folks, I'm looking at porting an application now using Google's maps and API to a platform that has no reliance on Internet availability. It's Open Source, and OpenLayers is the API of clear choice. Given that as half of the solution, what's recommended for the other half, the map data? I'm looking for suggestions that meet the following criteria. Users cd be anyplace, so I'll need something that wd cover the US, be moderate in price, and readily used with OpenLayers. GMaps-level of resolution and functionality is a target. There's several CDROM's around, notably those fm Microsoft, but I'll appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, Arnie Shore Annapolis, MD _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
