Hi Chris
Do you have any examples of interactive Map work?

- Is this map meant to work offline too? YES
- Should it be mobile friendly? NO
- Does search do anything? its not in the video. YES, You type in a city and it finds it.
- "title safe" I am not 100% sure what that feature is meant to do? I see it draws a red box, is that for printing the map? This is meant to show the producer the boundaries for markers and icons.
- HD makes the map bigger, does it do anything else? NO does not do anything else.

This will be for broadcast, thus the safe title option. This will be run on our servers and needs to be built using opensource code. Eventually I will have my programmers take over the project.

Victor

I can do this for you. I just finished a job on e-lance which used the OpenStreeMap and leaflet APIs.

Here's a break down of what I understood from the video on Vimeo:

Hi Pierre
Do you have any examples of interactive Map work?

- Buttons on the top left are map locations (guessing a centered lat lng) * These Buttons are place holders for future options. The Location Button is the first option which allows you to Search a location and choose different layers.
- There's a 4:3 mode which skews the tiles- * This is for Center Cut TV
- The HD mode is simply the tile at their normal aspect ratio * YES
- Title safe, like in Premier or Final Cut Pro, shows boundaries where text can be showed on a Television screen (persistent states) *YES
- Lock maps goes without saying (persistent states) * YES
- Fullscreen takes the entire space of the browser's viewport. Not sure how to do it otherwise like FLASH can do, since its a standalone plugin application. * Leafletjs has a plugin for this. http://brunob.github.io/leaflet.fullscreen/
- Terrain map is equivalent to OSM'sTransport Map, is that correct? * YES
- As for the layers (roads, highways, markers), I'm just not sure yet if its possible to separate the two. I took a quick look at the OSM docs and they seem to have them under the same umbrella, as if they were one and the same. But haven't looked more into it yet. * Leafletjs or openlayers may have something for this. Not sure
- Search box - not sure how that will work. If you could share some ideas that would be great. * This is a basic Search for locations. You type in an address and it takes you there. http://labs.easyblog.it/maps/leaflet-search/

I'm curious how you created the user experience video. Was it done in a video editing software or Is it something that already exist? Just being curious. I do not need access to it or anything. It will be full custom work. * I created the video using After Effects and PSD

- I have a FTP server you can work from. I just need to create an account for you

- $30 is a to expensive for us at this point. The most we could pay is $15. HOWEVER, We could pay $30 for the 2nd Milestone IF you can get this first milestone done according to the layout design. There are three other milestones related to this project.

Sincerely,
Victor L. Rangel

Hello Igor,
You have a great portfolio. Do you own or work for candelaIT?

This Map interface will be used for broadcast. For this purpose all we need is the USA/Texas area.
Your Questions:
- "First, search box, what data will it be searched here"?  * This is a search bar like google locations. You type an address in and hit enter so it will take you to that. location
- Concerning Terrain: Could we use Satellite instead or maybe something that looks similar to Terrain?. But if this part is difficult we can live without it.
- Title safe check box: This is for the producer know the boundaries for placed markers and text info. Its for TV safe areas on the screen.
- We will provide the FTP server to work off of.

You have exactly what we are looking for. But concerning pay  $32.88/hr  is a to expensive for us at this point. So I don't want to waste your time. The most we could pay is $15 per hr. HOWEVER, We could pay $30 for the 2nd Milestone IF you can get this first milestone done according to the layout design. There are three other milestones related to this project.

I will keep your website on file for future projects. You are exactly what we are looking for concerning this project.

Sincerely,
Victor

 
First couple of words about us. We are company specialized in GIS solutions. We almost exclusively use open source solutions as we came from open source world. To find out more about us, please check www.candela-it.com as there you can see examples and technology overview we use per project listed.

I have gone through your project outline and there are couple of questions. First, search box, what data will it be searched here? Will it be something like google locations? Then layers, where do you plan to fetch data? If its all based on open source you can get most what you need from OSM except terrain. I guess we coud render terrain tiles from google maps or bing maps.

I'm not sure i understand what title safe check box is, we have never come across that feature request and if you could explain what do you mean by that?

Also there is a problem of expectations. Getting fronted you want is maybe 3-4 days of work as most of it is covered in OpenLayers. Getting the rest of backend is quite a lot of work. We are talking about setting up database, OSM import, PostGIS, mapnik, styles for mapnik, some tile server etc.. Just OSM style is some 6000 lines of code. If you want some simpler style then its a bit easier. Then, depending on what you mean by search, backend could complicate a lot. In any case to give any good time estimation some things need to be clarified.

I know we are maybe a bit out of your price range, but we can't work for lower rate as it simply isn't worth our effort then. What we can promise is clean and documented code, with tests coverage if wanted and all the features delivered in timeline agreed on.

If you are interested, we would like to chat a bit more about it and get few things clear.

Kind regards
Igor