Nice script, I'll give it a try for my project MIMAQ - http://mimaq.org
The requirements are somewhat opposite here: many, many data points in a pretty limited geographic area; my first guess is that this will compensate more or less. Do you have a certain license in mind? MIMAQ is open source (mostly) licensed under the BSD license. On Nov 3, 8:19 pm, Aaron Kreider <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
