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SHORT QUESTION:
are there any cool interactive map-like directories that you've come across by surfing that are easily spiderable?
or, here's the LONG VERSION of my question:
I've been spending more than a few hours going over the work of Jonathan Harris - the yahoo netrospective which lead to tenbyten which lead to a mint company - and after literally spending hours on what i think is hands down the coolest web site that i have ever seen
I came across their "finding locations by map"
Mr. Harris uses macromedia flash to achieve his interactive map very successfully.
I'm about to create a similar directory navigated geographically from country to state to city so visitors can find locations of dealers. I, of course, need my directory to be able to offer spiders food...
are there any cool interactive maps that you've come across that are spiderable? I'm well aware that the directory I found, while cool, is not spider friendly.
just scraping for ideas. thanks.
[edited by: engine at 6:30 pm (utc) on Mar. 6, 2005]
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It would be spiderable, but I am not sure if the spiders would "figure out" what the page is about since there would be no repeated keywords.
Using CSS to absolute position the city/state/country names over top of a background image is a great way to go.
We also included a summarizing paragraph below the maps, to work in our keyword optimization, and so that the page isn't read as just a link farm.
Depending on your target market, this is a great option to include everyone, as the bandwidth it uses is minimal. (in my case, 21k for the image, 12k for the xhtml, 9k for the CSS)
Coolest maps on the planet. One of my clients just installed an interactive WebMap system, programmed using VB.NET The map views come from a subscription from Microsoft MapPoint Service. This client chose not to reinvent the wheel. The objective was offering the maps as a service to its end user clients, not as a product for sale.
kat
