Re: [PHP] Generating Maps On Your Web Site From: Kyle Jerviss (kjj <email protected>)
Date: 12/28/00

The last time I checked, setting up a Geographical Information System
(GIS) is VERY expensive, from big database servers to hiring people that
know how to set them up and maintain them.

If you do manage to, ahem, repackage, something like mapquest, they will
probably send their lawyers right over.

Alex Black wrote:
>
> 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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