Geneaology Tree

[Mamadou Touré]

Hi Folks,
I want to develop a Geneaology tree application for my family, but I'm
just wondering if there is an easy way to represent the tree (branches
etc...) in html. ? Suggestion for a tool tec...
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[David Kahn]

Hi Mamadou - I was actually looking into doing something similar last year. Did some research and I found that the google api's looked useful and easy to use - below is one such:

http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/treemap.html

2010/7/24 Mamadou Touré <li...@ruby-forum.com>

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[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

Mamadou Touré wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I want to develop a Geneaology tree application for my family, but I'm
> just wondering if there is an easy way to represent the tree (branches
> etc...) in html. ? Suggestion for a tool tec...

Besides the Google tree API (which I'll have to check out), you might be
able to get inspiration from something like PhpGedView.

Bonus tip: look into awesome_nested_set to represent trees in the DB.

Best,
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