Geoserver supports SLD also
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/Google+Maps+SLD

And here is a howto for mapserver.
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/sldhowto

They  dont roll your style parameters for you in terms of
creating the distribution of styles for your thematic mapping
( logaritmic progression or linear or SD based ..  one would have
to do compute those and put it in an SLD.)

But slds mean yes you can have the data in a pretty normal
FREE....  WMS published in multiple styles
from a single source based on attributes of the data...

On Oct 8, 6:05 am, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 12:30 am, MapSavage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The USGS overlays seem like you have to take all the counties, not
> > just the counties in a user's study area. And it didn't look like you
> > could color them based on custom data.
>
> There's quite a few parameters needed when coloring the data for
> thematic mapping. You would specify the color range (eg red to green),
> the number of classes, the classification method (eg Natural Breaks,
> Equal Interval, Quantiles, Standard Deviations).
>
> To start with I'm going to try something without these parameters,
> making a thematic map using Equal Interval classification, with 10
> classes, and a color ramp between red and green.  You would input a
> URL to the data file containing attributes of USA Counties and this
> would be added as a custom layer to the google map.
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