How to present geographical and other data on the web

Question

I've got a table that I'd like to present. However, a lot the information in it is only useful in aggregated or visual form. For example, the country column it itself is boring, but a aggregating all the entries of a country would be really useful. Coordinates are in there as well, so any solution should be able to present stuff on a map.

Note that the solution can be non-web, but I'd really prefer a web application everyone can access. What I've found so far is just the Google Maps API, but that's not very good at showing non-greographical information, is it?

Note that the table has a lot of dimensions, often nominal or ordinal (i.e. no numbers), so visual and plotting-focussed libraries are not that good.

Answer 1

EDIT: maybe that would help you, in absence of other answers

Today, this article popped into my RSS reader: Patterns of Destruction?: Visualizing Earthquake Data w/Tableau.

The author uses Tableau to visualize his data and mentions also Data Applied and GoodData.

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Combine the Google Maps API with something like the Javascript Visualization Toolkit?

There are may libraries out there that might do the trick as well:

• Raphael
• Axis
• ...