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...and then resized for web view. The major problem with that model is that drawing colored hexagons near the county border and near rivers will make it more difficult to see them, thus making it harder to interpret the map. What I would prefer to do - Draw my data hexagons on a blank slate [ via imagecreate(width,height) function), then draw the county border on top of that, and then on top of that either draw the lakes/rivers and/or basic topographical lines. My preference obviously includes getting data sets for those things (county border, lakes/rivers, topography) in a format that I can parse...