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tez
tez

Reputation: 71

Google maps API : overlaying areas

I'm pretty new to mapping tools. I have a project to overlay wind energy data onto maps. A particular Glatlng has a particular wind rank value.I need to shade a region using this data. I've referred the API tutorial by google, but I'm finding it difficult to know whether I'm going in the right direction. I'm just asking you guys to give me the right direction to work on this project. Please help me out.

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1771

Answers (2)

yosukesabai
yosukesabai

Reputation: 6244

One alternative is to you compose kml and then overlay on top of google map, like second example here, KMLLayers, in particular layer-kml.html. KML is documented here, and since it is open source there are tools to convert data into kml. it is not terribly hard to compose it on your own. good part of this aporoach is that you can get away with lots of javascript programming and stick with markup language.

If your data is already gridded an image, you may consider showing it as raster overlay with transparency.

I am not terribly experienced with google map so there may be more convenient ways, so look around too.

Upvotes: 0

Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse
Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse

Reputation: 77485

You probably want a heatmap. Have a look at: http://code.google.com/p/gheat/

There is a huge difference in the approaches whether you need this rarely, or high-performance for thousands of users.

Upvotes: 1

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