On Apr 27, 8:41 pm, Richard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone done a mashup where overlapping polygons have been used to
> display a density map.  Consider the following: 200 polygons some of
> which over lap. Where two overlap the overlap would be a different
> color, where three overlap, a different color and so on. I would like
> to use such a mashup to measure the density of a number of species in
> a specific range. I realize that a GIS system would produce this, but
> if there is one that would produce a google map this would be
> marvelous. I have individual polygons of separate species, but would
> like to know where the highest density of all of them would be.I
> literally have hundreds of these individual species maps so there
> would need to be some sort of processing the info to break the groups
> into layers of ten species.

Easy method: make your polygons of a specific opacity (say 0.1).
Overlapping polygons add their opacities, so where you have five
together you will have a darker area.

It's not easy to see more than ten different graduations -- in fact
differentiating between one and two overlapping may not be easy -- so
I wouldn't go for less than 0.1 for each polygon.

Andrew
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