AW: Plotting millions of points

> I'm working on a project using the Google Maps API and am curious if
anyone
> knows of any free solutions to plot millions of points (easily :)

I wouldn't say it's really easy, but a very stable and established
solution is to use a tile layer of custom-rendered images of the point
cloud. Mapserver works very well for that.

http://mapserver.org/output/tile_mode.html
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2/overlays.ht
ml#Tile_Overlays

hope that helps!

Alex

Received on Monday, 22 August 2011 22:50:22 UTC