New to Mapserver

Bart van den Eijnden bartvde at GMAIL.COM
Wed Dec 19 10:46:56 EST 2007


No it does not come with maps or data, and that data is hard to find most of
the times.

2 noteworthy initiatives:

-Open Street Map, http://www.openstreetmap.org/
-Open Aerial Map, http://www.openaerialmap.org/

Best regards,
Bart

On Dec 19, 2007 4:28 PM, David H. McCoy <davidhmccoy at cox.net> wrote:

> Hello!
>  I'm new to Mapserver and trying to understand something. I'm working for
> company that has an application with a mapping component. Currently, that
> component uses Google maps. I am replacing the Google Maps API with
> Openlayers and the mapping component with Mapserver. The goal is that
> while
> a customer can elect to use say Google maps, they can also host the maps
> internally, thus having no external dependencies.
>
> In additional to server maps, does Map server actually have maps
> available?
> Perhaps a better question would be are there any open source or freeware
> apps comparable to Google maps that I can retrieve for local use and
> utilize in
> Mapserver?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
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