Natalie,
From your first message, I would have replied with the answer MI 6.0
too. MapInfo 6.0 has an Image map creator tool that can take a layer like
your company locations and export them as an image map in an HTML file. You
have to choose a field it can use as a link to a web page to assign the
locations on the image map. This would be your companies' web page. It will
also export the image as a png or a jpeg. I've been using it in beta to
output a clickable service grid map where the link is a zoomed in map of the
area. I've found a limitation on the length of the html file name
assosicated with the link. It can only be 8 characters long.
You may also want to look into MapXsite. It is a location-finding
tool specifically design to do what you want. Big companies like Blockbuster
and Walmart have used it to upload their locations. MapInfo serves the data
for you, all you need to do is give them a file with the data. Check the MI
web site. I haven't look into it in a while.
Also everything you stated was correct about Mapinfo on the web
unless you have an old copy of MapInfo Proserver which did call Mapinfo
using OLEISAPI from a web page. I've tried'em all. If you need maps with
ever-changing data and live maps, you need Mapxtreme, else you can create a
Mapbasic batch output program to update your web page like I do now for data
that only changes every-so-often.
Hope that helps,
Dion Duran
GIS Systems Analyst
Metricom, Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 12:51 PM
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Subject: RE: Interactive Web-mapping
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't MapInfo Professional
with Internet connectivity function limited? ...not an alternative to
MapXtreme to develop an interactive mapping site, but just utilities to
deliver GIF images to a web site and to start a browser from an object in a
map and it does not work in both directions, MapInfo Professional cannot be
controlled by an Internet application (in any case it would be against the
copyright licence)?
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From: PERRY Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:03 PM
To: Swayze, Natalie: WPG
Subject: RE: Interactive Web-mapping
Natalie,
I believe you will need MI 6.0
Thanks,
Chris Perry
Systems Development CoOrdinator
Parks Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
Ph: 61 3 9816 6800
Fax: 61 3 9816 9876
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Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2000 6:52
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Subject: Interactive Web-mapping
A client would like me to create a map
displaying company location sites for a region of Canada, incorporating the
ability to click on each location and automatically be directed to the
companies website.
Is this something I will need additional
software for, or is this simply a matter of changing the format of the
tables' column containing the companies URL?
TIA
Natalie Swayze
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