[OpenLayers-Users] What would you use?

[Jan Martin]

Hi all,

I need to switch to a back-end that scales.
Please suggest what technology to use.

This is my custom front-end using open layers and the custom written flash
DIY streetview player.
http://www.diy-streetview.org/data/development/20110217/index.html

For then map data is provided like this by a  text-file:
A single data set looks like this:
lat    lon    imgdirection    filename nation    country    town    street
49.9942724285861    8.66443542324444    339    000037.jpg    Germany
Hessen    Langen    Westendstrasse

For the DIY streetview player:
Each pano (e.g. "000045") has a corresponding xml file e.g. "000045.xml".
(File location can be changed in the DIY streetview player to point to the
same URL for all streetviews.)

Describing both the "pano" istself, and "neighbour"s to be displayed.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<eyesisplayer>
    <pano direction="88" latitude="49.9945861297528"
longitude="8.66527973166667" altitude="188.9559633" />
    <neighbours>
        <neighbour path="000044.xml" latitude="49.99458200"
longitude="8.66510383" altitude="189.84849720" />
        <neighbour path="000046.xml" latitude="49.99459026"
longitude="8.66545564" altitude="188.06342780" />
        <neighbour path="000088.xml" latitude="49.99463573"
longitude="8.66556697" altitude="173.86521180" />
        <neighbour path="000087.xml" latitude="49.99451248"
longitude="8.66556220" altitude="173.76674110" />
        <neighbour path="000043.xml" latitude="49.99457787"
longitude="8.66492792" altitude="190.74103240" />
        <neighbour path="000047.xml" latitude="49.99459439"
longitude="8.66563155" altitude="187.17089200" />
        <neighbour path="000089.xml" latitude="49.99475898"
longitude="8.66557174" altitude="173.96368040" />
        <neighbour path="000086.xml" latitude="49.99438923"
longitude="8.66555743" altitude="173.66826920" />
    </neighbours>
</eyesisplayer>

Obviously the map approach does not scale at all, and the .xml files are
hard to maintain at best.

What would you use to provide this data?

Thanks,
Jan

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