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Props for opencagedata.com!

It's fairly easy (days work) to set up a Geoserver web map server to provide the data you need as a Web Map Service. You could use parent's data.

People should note the GetFeatureInfo interface that WMS provides for asking about the entities in a particular part of the map - click a house, yield the address and owner as XML (if you have that data).

Then you'd use openlayers to implement the web map on your site.

A 'roll your own' solution like this is only a good idea if you want to do something special, but an off the shelf solution constrains what you believe you can do. Imagine if every start-up was doing their site in wordpress.




Thanks, we went live literally just a few days ago, so any and all feedback on our site or proposition would be very helpful.




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