[OpenLayers-Users] Just discovered OpenLayers -> free data sources for businesses?

2009-02-19 Thread David Raasch
storm warning feeds when the word came back that management wasn't going to pay for a Google license . Thanks! -= Dave =- -Original Message- From: David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:45 AM To: David Raasch Subject: Re: [OpenLayer

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Just discovered OpenLayers -> free data sources for businesses?

2009-02-19 Thread Sebastian Benthall
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Christopher Schmidt < crschm...@metacarta.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:31:43AM -0600, David Raasch wrote: > > Then, this morning, I stumbled upon the OpenLayers site. > > > > At first, I was quite excited that it seemed somebody was offering a > mappin

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Just discovered OpenLayers -> free data sources for businesses?

2009-02-19 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:31:43AM -0600, David Raasch wrote: > Then, this morning, I stumbled upon the OpenLayers site. > > At first, I was quite excited that it seemed somebody was offering a mapping > API for free! But then, I started reading a bit more and it looks like, > although the app

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Just discovered OpenLayers -> free data sources for businesses?

2009-02-19 Thread David Fawcett
David, The application that you are talking about would be a classic use of OpenLayers, and the fact that it would be used by a for-profit business is not uncommon. In fact, a lot of the support for OpenLayers has been by a for-profit company. OpenLayers is just the application with no data serv

[OpenLayers-Users] Just discovered OpenLayers -> free data sources for businesses?

2009-02-19 Thread David Raasch
Greetings All! I just stumbled onto OpenLayers this morning, but let me give a bit of background before I ask my question: I work at a 24-hour tech support call center for some proprietary software that has hundreds of client sites nationwide. A couple years ago, I developed a Google Maps applica