[OSM-talk] Where Did You Edit

[David Fawcett]

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 <ian.dees at gmail.com> 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 <o... at stephans-server.de>
>> 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.
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