extract polygon data to map

pstanzi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a few shapefiles that i extract the polygon data to a sql database on a daily basis but i am wondering how i can plot that data on a custom map using the lat/lon coordinates...is their a script that can do this? thanks!

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Re: extract polygon data to map by blakew (Monk) on May 14, 2010 at 02:00 UTC
OpenJump can just plot the shapefiles directly. I'm sure they can also show a delimited-file of coordinates if you want to process them first.	[reply]
Re: extract polygon data to map by spx2 (Deacon) on May 13, 2010 at 23:24 UTC
by getting a google maps api key and getting the points through ajax and then plotting them on the screen ? how else ?	[reply]