Guy Roberts

England and Wales are divided into about 7000 Middle Level Super Output Areas that are used for statistical purposes. For instance the Indices of Deprivation were collected for SOAs.
I have found a way to quickly produce thematic Google Maps for SOA data. The finished maps could then be copied to another web [...]

Here is the current state of play of a trial site to produce thematic maps on the fly using Google Maps, Ruby on Rails and Java.  A long list of tasks need to be completed before its useful, not least fixing the way the map tiles look under IE (try Firefox - it handles PNG files [...]

I have a cunning plan, to write a web application that automatically generates a Google map showing thematic data from an ESRI shape file. On a previous contract for Leicester County Council I used MapInfo’s MapXtreme for Java to render raster maps for each request, but found that it can often take up to 20 [...]