Perhaps you can have a look at the following site:

http://marinetraffic.com/ais/

2009/3/12 Akis <[email protected]>

>
> I have a tough assignment, and I am starting to figure out how to pull
> all this together. ANY help will be much appreciated!
>
> The client is a real estate website, and they want a map view of the
> listings found in the search results. Sounds easy, but since the
> results can be in the thousands, it's not really possible to simple
> dump all the points on a map, no matter how big you make it.
>
> So, they want an overlay made up of 9 equal-sized rectangles to go on
> top of the map with a small font text somewhere inside each area
> indicating how many points (property listings) have been found under
> that region (just like Realtor.com has done with their map view). Each
> rectangle will then have a click event which will zoom in that
> specific area one level down. And of course, upon zooming in/out or
> moving the map, the overlay will be redrawn and data from the server
> will be added by AJAX.
>
> I have been trying to find an example like mine, but I am not that
> lucky. Anyone know of one? This has a lot of stuff which I don't know
> how to do. My main concern/difficulties are:
> 1) How do I create those 9 equal sized rectangles on my map with just
> their borders showing?
> 2) How do I get the count of items found within each boundary?
> >
>


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