Hi, from a long-ago MapInfo-L participant! Back again, with my nifty new Gmail account.
I also found overlib to be a nifty solution to web mapping. In some cases I've used imagemaps that I generated in MapInfo, such as on http://www.cityleague.org, and in other cases, I borrowed (with permission) the underlying image map, as in http://www.registration-deadlines.com/ I love those little apps. No fancy schmancy expensive server apps running in the background. Just good, clean, rapid, always-works code. (Well, maybe not, admittedly, I haven't tested on a wide variety of browsers? If those break, on any browser, let me know.) Sincerely, Margie Roswell http://www.registration-deadlines.com/ http://www.cityleague.org/ and a slew of other community-oriented websites over the years...but those are the two map-enabled ones that are still up. (All my other stuff is password-protected, at work.) Also, http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/mipage.html (so old, not maintained in years, but still, I discovered yesterday, showing up in the #3 spot on a google search for "mapinfo." The university fiddled around with the server space. Once I determine WHERE that site lives, I'll get back to bringing that up to code! On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:50:14 -0000, Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Stuart, > > Although there is a utility to build HTML image maps, I'm not sure it's made > available in source code. In any case, it's not a difficult thing to do from > scratch and since it uses many elements from MB programming (file output, > map windows, object processing and a bit of arithmetic), it's a good > exercise. > > The key to image maps is identifying the pixel location of a feature on your > map (say a place name). For non-exotic projections, you can do this by > simply interpolating x/y given the coordinate min/max of your mapper window > and the location within the window that you want to use. Once this > conversion is working, you can build hot spots that are simply small circle > (for point objects) or more complicated regions. Note with the latter that > if your region data is quite detailed, it's worth stripping out redundant > (duplicate) points out of the image map. > > As well as hot spots, you can also use JavaScript tricks to do pop-up > information. I use a slightly modified version of Overlib to do the Map > Gallery area on the Europa Technologies web site. Hover over the place dots > for information. Unfortunately I have only managed to get this working with > IE at the moment. > > http://www.europa-tech.com/gallery.htm > > It's quote rewarding to get a semi-interactive map working outside of > MapInfo, so do give it a try. > > Regards, > Warren Vick > Europa Technologies Ltd. > http://www.europa-tech.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 February 2005 09:25 > To: [email protected] > Subject: MI-L HTML Image Maps - Sample Code with MapBasic 7.8 > > Would anyone be kind enough to provide me with the mapbasic Sample Code for > creating HTML Image maps? > > I have MIPro 7.8 but only MapBasic 7.0, so I do not have this code .. which > I believe was provided from MB v7.5 onwards > > Thank you in advance > > Stuart > ps. sorry for the re-post > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To > unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 15394 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 15396 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 15403
