APEX is cool, Google is cool, Google Visualizations are even cooler. So the combination the coolest technologies available is sub-zero! A Google Visualization needs can get it's data programmatically by using javascript: create a DataTable object and use addColumn to define the columns and addRows to define the rows. But a Visualization can also be fed with a JSON object. So I created a package prodcure that reads a sql query and spits out a JSON string in the format Google likes. This procedure is called by an APEX On Demand Application Process. In every APEX page the necessary Google Visualization packages are loaded by calling google.load with some packages, like this: google.load('visualization', '1', {packages :[ 'geomap', 'intensitymap', 'map' ]}); (The google.load function is loaded in the template by referencing a javascript file http://www.google.com/jsapi). Every chart is defined as an HTML Region. The source of that Region contain...