Have you looked at Open Heat Map? http://www.openheatmap.com/ and https://github.com/petewarden/openheatmap/wiki/
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:49:18 PM UTC-5, Josh Doe wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Stephan Knauss <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> What would be the coolest way to zoom? I thought of a slippy map with >>> transparency above the regular tiles. >>> Others mentioned presets like continent/country. >>> I could also imagine to let you set an arbitrary bounding box based on a >>> zoom level. >>> eg you say you want to see zoom level 13 and then you get a bounding box >>> that you can place over the area of interest. >> >> Coolest would definitely be transparent tiles, as it's the most versatile. >> You (or others) could then implement presets for countries/states, take >> advantage of OpenLayers shift+click+drag zoom functionality, etc. > > You may want to consider using Google's Fusion Tables for this. Their map > view will generate heat maps out of millions of points quite quickly. Plus, > you could easily add a selection to narrow the maps down by user. I don't > think you need to display Fusion Tables tiles in their API, either. > Technically it's easy to add to OpenLayers but their terms might say > otherwise. > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
