Anyone know the origins of the attached heatmap/daylight overlay? I see it on the Mathematica homepage all the time and I even saw it once on Wolfram|Alpha launch video. I know there are ways to generate both heatmaps and daylight overlays, but does Mathematica have built in functionality that does something like this?
Yes, I realize this might be an odd question, but it's been bugging me for a while...
There is much more to this image than meets the eye. To get the complexity and scope of this project (much beyond heat-maps), watch free video Development: Enterprise-Class Web Applications about this particular project and download presentation slides notebook. Below are a few screenshots from the presentation showing some cool parts of the same dashboard that you probably have not seen before yet. Also, for just day-night app take a look at this Demonstration: Day and Night World Clock by Yu-Sung Chang - the same person who gives the presentation.
