To help clarify my so-called thinking here, I'm looking at OpenLayers for the JavaScript library to enable access to map images/tiles/files based on using OpenStreetMap. The latter wd be accessible at user-owned servers, without Internet access for this function. Free and open source.
Any insights or suggestions will be much appreciated. AS Arnie Shore wrote: > Hello all. Let me tell you a bit re what I'm doing (he sez, as though > he really knows!) and invite suggestions. > > I've written a free open source computer-aided dispatch application, > targeted to teams/agencies with zero budgets for software of this > nature. (It's Tickets by name, and with a demonstration/download site > at http://www.saefern.org/tickets/ - in addition to SourceForge.) It's > built using the usual open source suspects, PHP and MySql. Of special > relevance here is that I've included Google Maps as the geo-spatial > component. Justification for the latter is, not surprisingly, its zero > cost, ubiquity, and convenience - as well as its capabilities. By > design for its expected installation by first-timers, it avoids use of > any other than the most basic components. > > Now I want to port Tickets to a mapping base that wd allow its use in > situation where - at least temporarily - there's no Internet access; > the maps/tiles/images wd need storage and accessibility at the web > server. (Client browser and server are readily configured onto a single > box, of course.) Certainly, OpenLayer's open Source aspect is > especially attractive, given all of the above. > > Tickets can/is deployed where there's limited mapping available, but I > expect that users - many of them ham radio enthusiasts - might be > willing to spend some effort in developing the kinds of map information > appropriate to their particular situations. From what I see on this > list, there's no shortage of tools and advice to help them do so. This > might be a particularly positive aspect in such an implementation, > although possiblY more than countered by the possible lack of immediate > availability. > > Th - th - th - that's it folks. Comments and suggestions invited, and > certainly from anyone who's undertaken a similar task. > > Arnie Shore > Annapolis, MD > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
