One of the more interesting projects I have on my plate at the moment involves writing a monitoring application for a client. One of the views that the client is requesting involves rendering a map with pinpoints showing the status of the "things we're monitoring". I've looked around at a couple different components but as with any component its hard to know if its good or bad without using it. Has anyone out in the blogosphere used a very slick mapping component. My requirements are as follows:
- Shows a plain jane map of a set of East coast states
- Allows me to provide a set of locations via a data feed (latitude, longitude)
- Allows me to choose the icon for the location so that I can swap out the icon to show the current status (red = problems, green = all good)
- Preferably has a real nice zoom, pan feature
- Allows near-real time update (Flash that pulls in a data feed every X minutes/seconds)
Can anyone offer any recommendations?