DevShed has a new piece posted this morning that might interest those out there that might be a bit frustrated with integrating dynamic content with PHP and GD.

The author ties his examples in with web services, a handy little tool that could be the next big thing in the online world (if anyone would really adopt it). The idea in this piece is that you will grab the temperature data from different places all across the United States (from a web service), and plot those temperatures on a map of the US and each state's capitals.

Of course, there's some overhead in this kind of creation, especially when dealing with an external information source, but it's well worth it to create handy applications such as this.