Help Needed. How can create a "mouse over event" on a map,

I have an old map of a town. I wish to scan it and have on a web page.

I then want markers on the map - and have a mouse over event to pop up a text box - dialogue box also clickable. The text box would have just a line or two of notes and click to access a page with more details of the buildings that were on that site

Might be the old way it was done, but I recall reading it was a Swedish? student who wrote the initial mouse over cursor over script.

If anyone can help I would appreciate it.

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faithfulhusband · C

mouse over the entire map is trivial. mouse over certain markers on a scanned image would be more difficult, you'd need to calculate the coordinates of those markers to see if the cursor location is over it. an alternative approach is to superimpose smaller images of just those buildings onto the map, then it becomes trivial to handle the mouse event over those specific images.

davidlewis · M

@faithfulhusband Thank you so much. I can just have icons I guess for the buildings.
that the mouse over click will open a new page of more details.
I did use Dreamweaver years ago but so out of practice now. I guess it is all a monthly fee now for web building software.

faithfulhusband · C

@davidlewis just a caveat with that approach, the size of the map has to remain static or the icons will start to be out of position when the map is resized

davidlewis · M

@faithfulhusband
I did hope to do this myself, dreamweaver was quite easy to use but that was 20 years ago. I am busy coaching now also. I will ask around I do not mind paying for help, maybe a web design student could help. Not looking for a student as in cheap labour. But they might welcome the chance to earn some cash. Thank you I do appreciate your help here.