John - I enjoyed watching your informative video.

I'm thinking I should
1) Create the data table that I want to display on the heat map. Do it
once, so I'm not running SQL queries multiple times.
(I'm going to break up the US into grids, and try out different
formulas for showing heat).

2) Convert from longitude/latitude to pixels.  I found a good
explanation of the equation:
http://blog.procontentanddesign.com/articles/single/171_Converting_latitude-longitude_into_x-y_cordinates_for_images.htm

3) Draw the pixels on each tile (256x256 png).  I'm going to be
drawing rectangles and filling them in with a color representing the
heat level. I'm going to need to do this for every zoom level, and all
of the continental United States.  (This is where my program will be
slow, possibly extremely slow).

4) Save each image.  What is the format for the file name?  How do I
tell Google what zoom level to use the tile at?

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