[OpenLayers-Users] Question about map data licensing

[Arnie Shore]

I'm with Brad Redfearn in what I plan to do, although not for commercial 
reasons but rather to provide a server environment for public safety 
operations that's able to operate without Internet access - when 'the 
balloon has gone up'.  The combination of OL and OpenStreetMap looks 
exactly right to allow for local-server-based map and api storage.

I myself use a rather limited set of the GMaps functions, mebbe ten in 
all; like instantiate, setCenter, etc. and I wonder if there some kind 
of function-to-function guide avaialble to assist those of us doing this 
kind of conversion.  I looked at a number of the examples, but nothing 
really looked too useful at this early stage.  Any hints along this line 
will really be appreciated.

AS

Brad Redfearn wrote:
> I'm looking at OpenLayers as an alternative to Google Maps for  
> building an application with advertising around the map. I want to  
> avoid any license restrictions or policy changes that would force me  
> to shut off my clients' maps. So I was very excited to find out about  
> OpenLayers. However, it seems to me that OpenLayers is still tied to  
> Google (or other proprietary providers) for the actual cartography. Am  
> I missing something, or is this the case? Thanks in advance for your  
> input. Cheers.
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