I've now got a webpage that lets you create your own heat maps!

http://www.campusactivism.org/heatmap/heat.php

It produce tile layers for Google Maps. One for each zoom level.  It
combines them into a tar file that you can download to use on your own
website.

The system is slow. I've been using it for mapping the heat of around
100-1500 data points, creating tiles up to zoom level 7 or 8 for the
entire lower 48 US states, and at a resolution of around 0.1 longitude
by 0.08 latitude.  That can take up to 40 minutes.  You can get it to
send you an email notification when the script is done (so long as it
doesn't time out).

It is dramatically faster if you don't need to zoom in so far.

Each zoom level makes it 4 times slower.

It would also be far faster if you did a smaller geographical area -
like a single state.

Speed is directly proportional to the longitude resolution * the
latitude resolution.

Source code:
http://www.campusactivism.org/heatmap/heat-sourcecode.txt

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