[thelist] Dynamic Maps

[Mark Gregor]

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> Using Perl, GD, and DBI you can take a static map and then update it
> dynamically from the data within the database. 

Yep, we've done something pretty much exactly like that on the KIDS COUNT site at http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/kc2000/ . Click on Maps and run a query.  It's basically a static map with all the states color coded with a different RGB value, which we then recolor based on the query.  Done using Perl, a gif drawing library, and MySQL.  

Mark

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