Mapserver & GoogleMaps to build point database

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,
 
There seems to be quite a lot of work already done in the Open streetmap project at www.openstreetmap.org with ready made tools for uploading data through recorded GPS tracks or directly digitising on high resolution satellite imagery from Yahoo.  There are tools for rendering the collected data to viewable maps.  It might be worth having a look.
 
Regards,
 
-Jukka Rahkonen-

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Hi,

I am outing myself as being one of those germans traveling with their 
camping-car all the time around in Europe. We adore staying overnight 
somewhere in the nature, avoiding campgrounds and the like.

Nowadays, it is pretty simple to pinpoint the place where you stay - 
a GPS being installed in almost all of the newer camping-cars.

Now, I would like to develop a database, where any person who's 
spirit is similar to mine, can access, visualize, download and as 
well upload those x- and y-coordinates so that we can share the best-
places-to-stay-overnight or so...

There would be fields essentially for the coordinates, a place 
description, photo etc...

Anyway, what is more important is the map interface: Having not too 
much time to dedicate, this should be simple to setup and to 
maintain. I thought of something like mapserver in conjunction with 
googlemaps.

Do you know of any pre-prepared application (in the style of ka-map, 
but which uses then googlemaps), where one can then as well easily 
add points, which would then be entered into a (postgres/postgis) 
database?

Thanks for any hints!

Stef