Commercial Quality Maps and web services

[Steve Wormley]

One option that the company I work for is looking into, with some success,
is to have Mapserver do a WMS call to a custom CGI which will retrieve map
data from a commercial map vendor with their API. Vendors we have looked at
include: deCarta, Microsoft MapPoint, Yahoo Maps and MapQuest.

Our needs are US, Europe and Australia road mapping and since we were unable
to find a direct WMS source we began investigating this option. At present
we are testing MS MapPoint. There are some projection issues but the maps
look pretty good in our development environment.

Other options, depending on your needs, might be to move to an AJAX based
solution using one of the above vendor's AJAX map controls and have your
Mapserver provide the data overlay to the client browser.

-Steve Wormley


On 2006-08-15 6:40, "Paul Maine(ATS)" <pmaine at AUSTIN.RR.COM> wrote:

> All
> 
> I have a commercial mapping application that I would like to use Mapserver
> as the map engine. Is their a commercial map data provider that provides web
> services that are compatible with Mapserver?
> 
> Thank You,
> Paul