[OpenLayers-Users] What would you use?

[Wally Atkins]

Maybe MongoDB? http://www.mongodb.org/

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Jan Martin <janmartin at diy-streetview.org>wrote:

> 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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