This might provide a few ideas... http://tomtaylor.co.uk/projects/boundaries/
2010/1/20 Kevin Elliott <[email protected]>: > 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
