I want to overlay a heatmap onto a google/yahoo any world map. It doesn't have to be resizable.
I've spent the last weeks hard on this, and found some great OS solutions, the best being in flex (that I don't know) and in python (requires fuck off server installs that I don't even want to try)
I thought this would be simple at the start (how naïve
), but it's a big deal! I've seen a frikken beautiful heatmap from a guy that is mapping all internet traffic, but that is waaaay overkill.
Basically, I have this free geolocation thing going on that is serving some 2million+ per day lookups, and I want a heatmap of all those lookups (ie daily refresh of the map, live would be too much to ask) to show on the homepage where all the lookups are for (eg a world map, not country etc) - all data is available in mysql as lat/long points and at a push country code and can be presented in any format required.
I tried it initially with georss or kml with google/yahoo points and fuck did it grind the browser to a halt with ~1000 points. Like I said, naive
A heatmap overlay with these web api maps is quite poss - I've got heatmapsapi working, but that's an offsite thing, and it's limited to 100 points per overlay, some few hundred thousand short of what I need.
There are great brains on this board - help a fellow programmer out with this solution for a free service. If you want paying though, I'm willing, cos I've gotten this heatmap bullet between the teeth now, but free help to help the service is always welcome
Thanks for looking