MI Pro generated web maps with info pop-ups

[Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.]

Hello all,

Over the weekend I updated the Map Gallery on the Europa web site to reflect
new versions of our products. I added something that may be of interest to
the list. Each of the map gallery pages now has a map which includes pop-up
information. This is a bit like a floating info-tool window or a rich tool
tip. Hovering your mouse pointer over the black place dots reveals some
information about the location. It's pretty useful when MapInfo's anti label
collision method has prevented certain place names appearing - now you can
just point to reveal. I'm currently just displaying some attribute
information... there's no reason why the pop-up could not show contact
details, etc. Overall, I think it's a good example of intelligent map
interaction without the need for a map server. There are still a few
improvements to be made. The biggest problem is that modifications need to
be made to support Netscape - so, for now, try it with IE. An additional
problem is that pointing to a location on the far left brings up a largely
off-screen pop-up - I'll fix that one tomorrow.

You can look at any of over 200 maps which use this scheme at
http://www.europa-tech.com/gallery.htm

For the technically minded, the maps and HTML pages were generated by a
MapBasic program. The program has now been enhanced to generate a client
side image map (CSIM) which details calculated hot-spot circles for each
place dot on the map. The pop-ups are based on some JavaScript code called
overLIB (http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/).  There is of course no reason
why each of the hot-spots could not link to other web pages.

Let me know what you think about it, or if you experience any problems with
your IE browser.

Regards,
Warren Vick
Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K.
http://www.europa-tech.com

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