killroy - 1:47 pm on Oct 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi Mole, I should have qualified. The system I've developed was for a small country where only 2 zoom levels were neccessary. I already qualyfied that the map rights are quite affordable in this country and said so.

Furthermore with a proper GIS system, details and road networks as well as other features can be enabled and disabled at will. For a large system, that is used nationwide in a country the size of the UK, a proper GIS system is a must. while GIS software is costly, if you can obtain the data files you could write the rest yourself. Not a few lines of PHP I agree, but then again I've never writte any PHP. I could write up the mapping part from the GIS data.

I was simply suggestign the quickest way to set a system up. Everything else is unfeasable for most websites, ergo: few online map offerings and VERY few custom solutions.

SN