Hey guys,

It has been a while since I last posted here, but I always lurk. I wanted some 
advice on which direction to head to put together a little tiny mashup that 
won't be publicly used.

I'm tracking a number of items that "belong" to geographical areas (countries 
and subcountries/regions). I'd like to create a map that shows these regions, 
using colors in the polygons for each region, to identify # of current items 
versus # estimated total.

For example:

If California, USA was the region, and we had 3 items out of 1000 estimated, 
I'd like to display California as quite a deep red. If Afghanistan was the 
region and we had 67 items out of the estimated 68, it should be bright green. 
The range in-between of % complete should show some scale of those colors.

So, that's the easy part. I'd like to do this in Ruby on Rails if possible. I'm 
not really interested in running a full blown WDS server, etc. I'm open to 
mashups, and I'd prefer the maps to look up-to-date, and the polygon drawing 
should be clean looking. I don't need absolute precision that  a commercial 
database might offer (for the polys), so I'm very open to anything open source 
in nature.

Can you guys recommend some directions to go that are relatively lightweight?

At a minimum, I've got 200+ countries to visualize, and, if available, their 
sub-regions.

Thanks,
Kevin
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Kevin Elliott

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