[OpenLayers-Users] Open Spaces

[Tom (JDi Solutions)]

I was specifically after post code searching since buying the post code
database from Royal Mail costs an arm and a leg and there are limits to the
number of searches you can do on their own database.  The reason I was
wondering if it can be included in OpenLayers is because if not then I will
have to load the OpenLayers code file AND the OpenSpaces code file just to
be able to get at the one function I want.  I suppose I could dig around and
try to find the actual web service address and then implement it myself but
I thought I'd best check that nobody has already done it first.

cheers all.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Peter Robins <openlayers at peterrobins.co.uk
> wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 Jun 2009, Tom (JDi Solutions) wrote:
> > Are there any plans to add Open Spaces services to the Open Layers API?
>
> why would you want that? The OS tiles are set up as a WMS which you can
> read
> with OL just like any other WMS - although you need a valid key to access.
> The OpenSpace api is based on OL (as is the French IGN's api), and released
> under a BSD licence, so you can change it if you want. There's nothing in
> the
> OpenSpace T&C that says you have to use their api to access the OpenSpace
> services.
>
> See discussions on this subject on the OpenSpace forum.
>
> Going slightly off-subject, I'm seeing increasing use of open-source
> software
> by the national mapping agencies in Europe - not just OL, but mapserver,
> tilecache too. Seems like they have to consider open-source software to
> meet
> the objectives of the EU's INSPIRE project - without breaking the bank.
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