Re: [PHP] Generating Maps On Your Web Site From: Alex Black (enigma <email protected>)
Date: 12/28/00

um,

but the thing is it's their intellectual property, and that would be
stealing.

mapquest has done three things:
    -partenered with some mapping database provider (the datasource) which
probably stores its maps as postscript or soemthing.
    -built software which can rapidly query that source and rasterize to
gif.
    -built an interface for talking to the query engine

PHP is good for the last thing.

_a 

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> From: jbeebe <email protected> ("JB")
> Newsgroups: php.general
> Date: 27 Dec 2000 09:23:05 -0800
> Subject: [PHP] Generating Maps On Your Web Site
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Before attempting my own solution, I was going to inquire if any of you had
> any slick ways of generating maps on a web site. I would like for users to
> be able to enter their own address within a listing in a business directory
> and be able to have a map generated for them, similar to Yahoo Map and Map
> Quest. I know these map providers offer services at a fee, or services that
> don't seamlessly integrate with the web page. I was wondering if any of you
> have a way of generating maps from any of these providers on your own site.
> Or, is there a service that allows you to seamlessly integrate their maps in
> your own web pages, preferably not fee based. Thanks a million!
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
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