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weedallc
08-25-2003, 08:51 AM
Hello, I am going to begin making an interactive map which will display a dot or icon in a certain position or location when you click a link.

Basically what it is:
I have many locations of buildings etc. listed as links. When a link (location name) is clicked, a dot or icon should appear on a map on the location of that building or whatever.

I found that the MAP and AREA tags are useful for clicking within the map to direct the browser to a webpage that correlates to that building/location. But would also like this dynamic introduction of images, so that the map is not horribly cluttered initially.

What method of implementation would be best for this? Also, if you could direct me to any tutorials (which I have tried to find with not very good luck) that would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

PeOfEo
08-25-2003, 12:54 PM
pick a server side language, you will need one.

Aronya1
08-25-2003, 01:20 PM
I would think this could be done with DHTML, but I might be wrong. If you don't get an answer in this forum, try there. Sorry, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to help you with it.

weedallc
08-25-2003, 03:21 PM
I am using ASP. Although, I wouldn't mind learning how to do it with PHP also.

PeOfEo
08-25-2003, 04:09 PM
Originally posted by Aronya1
I would think this could be done with DHTML, but I might be wrong. If you don't get an answer in this forum, try there. Sorry, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to help you with it. DHTML is a client side language and for anything like this the optimal tool would be a server side language because there will most likely be data base storage and it would reduce load times for a user. Also client side scripting would be a large security risk.