There are two things I hate about Summer: heat and mosquitoes. If I would be moving around a lot, having a heat map at my disposal would be great, but when we’re talking about such a thing like the one we have here today… heat as we know it is only a small part of the whole thing. How’s that? Well, OpenHeatMap is about much more than just high temperatures! 😉
This OpenHeatMap thingie is, according to the official FAQ, “a service designed to make it easy for non-specialists to create maps communicating information.” Its purpose is to transform data from a traditional data source such as a spreadsheet into an interactive animated view of a particular area that you can share online once the job is done.
OpenHeatMap comes as a Web-based free service, but even developers can enjoy it, since the jQuery plugin makes it easier to create maps, thanks to Flash or HTML5’s Canvas element. The feature-rich API allows you to control every aspect of the maps thanks to JavaScript, so addin popups, zooming or changing colors/sizes is as easy as it gets.
To take a closer look at what can be done with OpenHeatMap, click here. Obviously, everything you create with this piece of code should work on all major browsers, at least as long as Java is not disabled…
