Mapstraction - Sep 2009 - Late Arrival Here

Hello all.  Finally getting around to an introduction here.  I''m the
author
of an Open Source Computer-Aided Dispatch package - Tickets by name -
that''s
gained some traction among the amateur radio community, notably those who
support emergency comm''s.  (Tickets is PHP and MySQL-based.)

I''ve had numerous requests from these folks to provide a version that
will
allow operation when the balloon has gone up; that is, off a local server
and internet-free.

Therefore, high on the road map is moving from my currently-used GMaps API
and tile source to OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap.  The latter''s tiles, a
subset of course, would be locally stored based on the user''s expected
area
of operation.

Mapstraction, I *finally *realize, can provide a significant assist in that
transition.  Accordingly, I''d appreciate any suggestions, pointers,
lessons-learned, etc. who might be in the midst of - or have already
completed - such an effort.

AS
Annapolis, MD
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Hi Arnie - thanks for popping your head up and telling us about your project.

Mapstraction can definitely help here. However, something that we
could use help with together is moving the OpenLayers support from
Mapstraction v1 to the new, improved and easier to maintain v2
codebase. The transfer should be quite straightforward.

My suggestion would be to grab the current codebase
(http://code.google.com/p/mapstraction) as well as the v1 codebase
(http://www.mapstraction.com/svn) and migrate the OpenLayers code to a
new mxn.openlayers.core.js.

There are lots of examples in the new code base as well. And feel free
to ask here on specific questions on the migration and utilization!

Thanks!
Andrew

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Arnie Shore <shoreas at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello all.? Finally getting around to an introduction here.? I''m
the author
> of an Open Source Computer-Aided Dispatch package - Tickets by name -
that''s
> gained some traction among the amateur radio community, notably those who
> support emergency comm''s.? (Tickets is PHP and MySQL-based.)
>
> I''ve had numerous requests from these folks to provide a version
that will
> allow operation when the balloon has gone up; that is, off a local server
> and internet-free.
>
> Therefore, high on the road map is moving from my currently-used GMaps API
> and tile source to OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap.? The latter''s
tiles, a
> subset of course, would be locally stored based on the user''s
expected area
> of operation.
>
> Mapstraction, I finally realize, can provide a significant assist in that
> transition.? Accordingly, I''d appreciate any suggestions,
pointers,
> lessons-learned, etc. who might be in the midst of - or have already
> completed - such an effort.
>
> AS
> Annapolis, MD
>
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>


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Andrew, WRT " ... we could use help with together is moving the OpenLayers
support from Mapstraction v1 to ...":

Happy to help any way I can, but I''m noob enough not to be sure just
what
that means.  ~ AS

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Andrew Turner
<andrew at highearthorbit.com>wrote:
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>
> Mapstraction can definitely help here. However, something that we
> could use help with together is moving the OpenLayers support from
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