[OSM-newbies] Fwd: Usage of Open Street Map for disaster prevention / disaster control

[Steve Coast]

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Subject: 	Usage of Open Street Map for disaster prevention / disaster 
control
Date: 	Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:22:21 +0200
From: 	<business at visualhome.de>
To: 	<steve at asklater.com>



Hello Steve,

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.

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.

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:

    * 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.

If you are interested could you provide me with some entry points to the 
following themes:

    * 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.
    * Selecting small maps out of Open Street Map for single missions
      and documentation purposes.
    * Integrating Open Street Map into php/HTML (like displaying a
      viewer in a DIV-tag or the like).

Thanks,
Bernd

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