Not sure if it has the flexibility you need, but there's some basic geographical stuff in dabbledb: <http://dabbledb.com/>
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Mike Malone <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure if this will work for you, but I just came across this today: > http://cartographer.visualmotive.com/ > It's a javascript library that lets you overlay information on Google maps. > You can do choropleths/heat maps, and the like. I haven't used it, but the > underlying raphael library is really awesome, so I have high hopes. > Mike > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Kevin Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> -- >> Kevin Elliott >> >> Website: Mused for iPhone >> Buy: Mused in the Apple iTunes App Store >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
