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I am desperately trying to find a relatively easy way to create a map viewer on a clients website that can load in the entire center of london and enable users to go to different locations via links. I have the map all ready to go (in vectors) but so far have had no luck finding an simple way to do this.
My ideal would be something I could customise, like perhaps a flash interface..
Please any ideas or thoughts would be REALLY appreciated
ZA
There are map services that you can buy or subscribe to that will let you do this sort of thing - however something as bespoke as that might be expensive.
Multimap offer a business mapping service and might be able to help.
Theoretically you could do it using flash and database that served map sections via post code or address query- but this might be extremely time consuming to produce (depending on the map scale).
Sorry I've no concrete suggestions to offer.
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That should be a fairly simple, albeit old-school as hell solution- especially if you use a WYSIWYG html editor. It won't be as animated and funky as something in Flash, but it is a simple option. Last time I did an image map in one of those editors (i think it was Dreamweaver), you could load your image into the HTML, and then create an image map, which lets you "draw" freehand polygons over the image, which are then accepted as the hot area for a link. In this way, you could draw around the borders of each town, city, whatever you're doing... and then each of those polygons would be their own link to the repsective pages. I hope it still works that way in the WYSIWYG editors... again, I haven't used one in years so I don't recall exactly. Hope that is of help. Oh, and if you're already aware of how an image map works, then my apologies for addressing you like a novice.
Of course this solution has limited interactivity, and the 'hotspot' is not as flexible as the imagemap, but is definitely easier to update and maintain if changes are to be made.
Linkage to my map as an example:
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It's pretty easy as long as you read the documentation. Good luck on whatever route you decide!
[edited by: tedster at 8:12 pm (utc) on Nov. 6, 2005]
Been away so just picked up your threads - thank you for responding, I was giving up hope...
I do need some interactivity with this tool, and so I think image maps may be out for me, quite apart form the fact this image map would be huge (most of central london)
I have some specific vector art (as well as the map of london) which needs to appear on the maps. Do you know if Google map API allows me to add my own icons specific to my client's needs..?
LTmbt - can you sticky me with a link to your example use of Google map
Also I have come across a tool called ZOOMIFY has anyone used this or heard of this before...or would have a second to take a look at it and tell me what you think..?
thanks again
ZA
[edited by: rogerd at 3:59 pm (utc) on Nov. 15, 2005]
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