Good tools for animated maps on a webpage

Question

I want to present regions on a map inside a webpage. The region should be clickable and highlighted when hovered. I'am using django so I tend to orient towords matplotlib and other python tools.

There are interesting projects on the web:

• thematic mapping
• polymaps
• geodjango seems complicated
• this blog shows a marvelous way of displaying data on maps using matplotlib and descartes

The problem is that i don't know where to finf the GeaJson data concerning contries and regions.

Does anyone has some advices not to loose too much tim with complicated applications. thanks

Answer 1

I'd definitely go with openlayers if it's just presentation.

Geodjango is handy for allowing admins to edit spatial data in the django admin, but by itself doesn't have much in the way of map presentation templates - you have to build them yourself (using openlayers) or try the olwidget django addon.