You might also consider Google Earth (free) http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/ It can display kml with almost a million points on my desktop before it gets too slow. At the end of the day google maps with a full web app offers the most possibilities but kml is quick and easy.
On Jun 20, 10:36 am, Glenn <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason > > Displaying a large amount of data on a google map is a bit of a > technical challenge. > It can certainly be done but if you just need an occasional report > shaded by zip code or census tract building a web app might be > overkill. Granted, these products are very limited in their > customization and web apps definitely scale better for groups. > In any case I would definitely recommend doing a quick pattern > analysis as part of the design process for a web app. > > If you have the points geocoded you could easily throw them > Map Window: (free but a bit complicated)www.mapwindow.org/ > or > MapPoint Desktop ($200 and easy to use / export to > excel)http://www.microsoft.com/MapPoint/en-us/default.aspx > > Glenn > > On Jun 19, 10:24 pm, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We are a marketing firm that is looking to visualize a lot of phone > > data, where we can show the location phone calls are coming from at > > any given time. (We get a lot of calls) I am not sure where to start, > > but I thought I would throw this out there to the group. I have seen > > some interesting time lapses of twitter feeds, etc, but not a real > > time app that tracked a data point on a map. > > > Any ideas on where I can begin? Any examples of real time data being > > visualized on a map I can look at? > > > Thanks, > > > Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
