polymaps & poly... polygons

If you're talking about GeoJSON you can use any kind of database, and backend server, you want so long as it:

1) Expects to receives TMS or /{zoom}/{x-coord}/{y-coord}.json style URLs and can convert Z/X/Y in to a bounding box.

(Take a look at something like Tilestache (.org) if you want/need to see the math involved in doing that.)

2) Returns GeoJSON.

For styling , and adding interactive bits, to the data results you'll want to define a "load" function using the layer's on() method. For example:

var l = org.polymaps.geoJson();
l.url("http://example.com/tiles/{Z}/{X}/{Y}.json");
l.on("load", function(e){ ... });

The Polymaps site has lots of good documentation and example code, but I've also included the slides and sample code from a Polymaps workshop I did recently:

http://www.aaronland.info/talks/where2011/

http://www.aaronland.info/talks/where2011/workshop

Cheers

Ok, so here's the deal - This Blog Post

Cleared EVERYTHING up. It's a must read for anybody playing with Polymaps. I found it via Henry on Reddit

Aaron mentioned using TileStache and indeed... That is the key, I just did not see how - The above blog post is quite informative in using TileStache. Big Win.