For data, you might want to look at the Natural Earth data. http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
David. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
