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<td>Usage of Open Street Map for disaster prevention /
disaster control</td>
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<td>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:22:21 +0200</td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:business@visualhome.de"><business@visualhome.de></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steve@asklater.com"><steve@asklater.com></a></td>
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Hello Steve,<br>
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a friend of mine found your Open Street Map project on the internet
and brought it to my attention. Since some time I'm developing a
software for the disaster prevention / disaster control in Germany.
This software is about a mission guiding system that distributes
information throughout the hierarchy of the participating units. It
is a web-based developement to keep implementation costs at a
minimum and keep it easily accessible with no need for installation
on the client side.<br>
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A big issue is the matter about where to get maps that are up to
date and easily accessible. At the moment maps have to be prepared
as graphical files and uploaded into the system. As sufficient as it
may be at the moment things would be greatly improved if we could
mate such a powerful database as your Open Street Map with our
software. Our software is basically based on php and mySQL.<br>
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I've been rummaging through the internet to get some information
about how I can possible integrate Open Street Map into the system.
So far I've found some information to give me a general idea but
there are still some questions left:<br>
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<li>Basically ... would you be interested in supporting our goal
to mate up your Open Street Map and our mission guidance system?
At the moment we are working on a pilot project where there will
be some media attention and all the supporters of the project
will be publicly named one way or another.<br>
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If you are interested could you provide me with some entry points to
the following themes:<br>
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<li>Setting up a local Open Street Map server based rather on
mySQL than postgreSQL? Or at least setting up a server based on
postgreSQL? As a first step I'd like to set up a local server
that replicates the data available for Europe.<br>
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<li>Selecting small maps out of Open Street Map for single
missions and documentation purposes.</li>
<li>Integrating Open Street Map into php/HTML (like displaying a
viewer in a DIV-tag or the like).</li>
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Thanks,<br>
Bernd<br>
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