[OSM-talk] feasibility - different use of openstreetmap

[Peter Körner]

> Question:
> Would it be possible/feasible to setup a map server like openstreetmap 
> that shows all the street/roads along with my aerial photography and 
> field outlines, and then make a search for the field by customer, by 
> legal description or by field name?

I'm unsure about the technical details, but in general you would need a 
apache with mod_tile [0] / renderd / mapnik [1] to render your 
street-tiles with transparent background.

Your Areal photos could (should?) be supplied by a WMS-Server (?)

Both would be bundled together with OpenLayers [2]. As they also support 
vector drawings from external sources (GML, KML, etc.) I would suggest 
to put the field-outlines in here.

Especially transparent street-tiles would be very cool to share to the 
community. If I'ts not possible to publish the tiles you may want to 
publish the styles-file & configurations you used to generate them to 
the wiki.

Good Look with your Project,
Peter



[0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mod_tile
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik
[2] http://openlayers.org/