I was doing some research yesterday to get a feel for what kind of tools are out there that I could use to build a really sweet government org chart. I am picturing something a bit like ancestry.com's family tree viewer.

Google has an org chart visualization as part of their charting API but it looks a bit rudimentary. Someone on StackOverflow pointed me to a commercial ASP.Net component that looks not bad, but I want something free and open.

I started looking at what's going on with visualization in the browser these days. I found these HTML canvas demos and Raphael JS looks like a sweet library for working with SVG. I might start playing with it to build my own org chart solution. Also caught wind of WebGL which sounds really cool. I am going to download a nightly FireFox build so I can check it out.