Data presentation

This is an off the wall question but 开发者_JS百科I have always gotten great support here so maybe you can offer me some ideas.

I have a web app that is going to present data in a geographical fashion. Some people have expressed a favorable impression of using a map which I have implemented while others want to find the data in a list type fashion. Thing is - I don't wish to present it in a list since that infers some sort of sort order when there isn't any. Are there any novel, impressive, different ways of presenting this data that might be considered an alternative to the maps that people would see and say 'oh that is cool'

Sorry for the vagueness - but the idea is in development and well...

There are some examples of Maps and Treemaps techniques on Quince. Maybe that would help you.