I run a development group that is developing a real estate
application.(web based). It's PHP and from the start we have had
the idea of including mapping software to integrate with mapping
stuff. We've looked at multiple web based mapping vendors,
including Arc IMS, but haven't found something that we consider a good
solution. We want something that is easy to use like Google maps
but also very flexible. Furthermore it's important that we have
the ability to include it in our mostly closed source applicaton.
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I'm not really a mapping guru as most of my incomplete knowledge comes
from a mapping group in the same building so I have some basic
questions about whether we can use ka-map and contribute to it as
well. <br>
1. Can you use aerial photography with ka-map? We use
aerials provided by air photo USA and want to use that on our web based
stuff. I'm guessing right now only street maps are
supported. With aerials, we need to use these images (they come
in jpeg) and associate their world files (which have the projection
ifnormation in them). Is this something that could be done with
this software (if it doesn't exist now could it be realistically
added?).<br>
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2. Could we expect to use this stuff by the end of the
year? Based off the examples it looks like ka-map is pretty far
along...<br>
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Actually that's probably all the questions for now since our use of
ka-maps is contigent on them. Currently we have four developers
including myself with pretty extensive experience in web development,
javascript (including just starting to get into "ajax" stuff). I
hope it's clear that we're not trying to selfishly use and expect
ka-maps to work for us as we're willing to improve it to meet our needs
if it doesn't have the functionality. <br>
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I hope this can work out since you have done excellent work! <br>
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Thanks,<br>-- <br>-Clark Endrizzi<br>