repurposing thuban code for a google mashup?

[Russ Nelson]

(All arguments against google mashups aside) I'm thinking that a
reasonable way to present a property boundaries shapefile is using a
Google mashup.  To do that, I'd need to create a web service which can
read the shapefile.  The obvious candidate to do that is pyshapelib,
since OF COURSE the only reasonable programming language to use is
Python.  But I don't know quite how to take a lat/lon, and ask
pyshapelib to hand me back the shape(s) containing that lat/lon.

I know it's a bit off-topic, but does anybody have any hints for me?

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