[WSG] CSS for a map?

[Mkear]

Has anyone used CSS to do colour changes over areas in a map?   Is that a practical way to do it?

I have a prospective client who wants a map of a subdivision he's doing and wants to have the housing blocks coloured differently depending on sale status, availability etc, and to change colour when you roll the mouse over it.   I was thinking of setting the inital state of the area based on a dynamic value pulled from the database (i.e sold, available, holding deposit) and with hover state for the mouseover. 

Is it a practical thing to be thinking about CSS for this, given that the areas aren't rectangular?

Or can anyone think  of a better way to do it?   (My intial thought was to use flash but we've crossed that idea off for a number of reasons)

Cheers
Mike Kear
AFP Webworks
Windsor, NSW, Australia .


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