Actually it looks like the visualization api does this and more.

Best Regards,
Bill Zeller

On Sep 19, 10:15 pm, Bill Zeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a big fan of Google Charts and I have an idea for a feature that
> would make it much more useful for certain applications.
>
> Basically what I'd like is a URL that would return JSON info about the
> generated chart (it would take the same parameters that the chart url
> takes). By info, I mean position of items in the chart. For example,
> if I were given the positions of the drawn bars in a bar chart, I
> could create mouseover tooltips (like 
> this:http://www.dustyd.net/projects/PhotoNotes/) to give more information
> about certain items in the chart. This could also be used to let me
> create mouseover or click events for useful items in a line chart.
> This would be more difficult for round figures (like pie graphs), but
> presumably one could use imagemaps to create clickable polygon
> regions.
>
> Creating an optional JSON feed wouldn't add any bloat to current users
> and would be extremely useful to people who want to connect their
> generated charts to other items on the page.
>
> I'd be happy to talk more about this implementation if Google has any
> interest.
>
> Best Regards,
> Bill Zeller
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