If you don't *have* to use your own image, maybe you could look at using Google maps (http://www.google.com/apis/maps/). Here's a link to a Ruby project for something like this.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/cartographer/ Otherwise, you could use this for ideas to do what you want with your image. Owen On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:26:23AM -0400, Ron Joffe wrote: > > Can someone suggest some ideas/techniques for implementing the following on a > web page.... > > I have a single graphic of several counties displayed on a web page....I > would > like to read a set of data containing x.y coordinates and plot a dot on the > county graphic dynamically, realizing that the coordinates in the data set > would need to be translated to the coordinate set of the graphic. I would > also like to make the dot that just got plotted, a hot spot on the graphic so > when a user hover's over it or clicks on it, I can pop up a small detail > window with additional information. The additional information and x,y > information will be contained in a flat file which will be updated > periodically (say every x minutes). > > I am looking for two types of answers: > > First - Just a general method of accomplishing this > (reply to list) > > Second - Hey I know just how to do that, and the cost to implement is $$ > (reply directly to me) > > Any feedback would be appreciated. > > Ron -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
