What I would like to do next is to put a dozen or two graphic boxes around the island which when clicked show up a picture and some text of that particular spot. The popping up part I suppose is quite simple with the rollover action, etc. But getting the boxes on the map I can’t figure out, as they have to move with the map when scaling up or down.
…and may I come with a humble suggestion to the administrator of this forum: It would be so much more convenient if the links would open in a new tab as many of the helpers here do use links to illustrate a point. As it is now we the plebeians have to use the back button and wait for the page to open again only to find that we’d forgotten something.
It’s a matter of preference, really. If you want to open a new window/tab from a link, hold down the command (apple) key when you press the link. The XHTML Strict philosophy, which I agree with, says that the browser belongs to the user, not the designer. Therefore browser behavior should remain under the control of the user, and the choice of opening a new tab or window will be a conscious decision of the individual, not a decision by fiat of the designer.
Thank you for that, Walter. I agree with you on your thoughts, but I don’t think many out there know about that option, me included until this moment…
But… can you (or anybody else, for that matter) enlighten me on my major question? I’ve looked on Google and the problem might have to be addressed from there, but to me as a novice it seems a little complicated. That’s why I hoped somebody here could explain something in an understandable way. I’m not a all into coding. That’s why I use Freeway.
I hesitate to offer, as it took me literally weeks of time in the Google Maps API forum and I still don’t really know exactly how I did it.
But if you’d care to look at Roman Holiday Map, and its source code, and yours, I might be able to help cobble something together. That page was produced in FW3.5.15.
In the meantime, I’ll try to look at the --I assume-- Action that embedded your map. Never used it before. Perhaps the Action has some extensions we could use?
The Google map is interactive as you know and has to scale so you cannot add anything in the FW document that can interact with it.
What you could probably do is use the Upload to Panoramio feature and place your pics with that. Not sure if they would appear by default in your FW page though. And they would need to be mapped to the location.
Alternatively you use a static pic of the Google map and add your pics with their rollovers there. You could then also have an interactive version so that potential customers can scale it.
FYI Bucky, neither of the pages you link to work properly.
For those interested my page is now on its way to be finished and it looks quite ok. A lot of “hot spots” are still missing, but you’ll get the picture (so to speak). And the address is changed: http://www.my-santana.com/locations.html
I see the problem with my links. Please accept apologies. This forum interface has added the trailing comma and period to the urls, so that of course won’t parse in a browser.
That’s a nice implementation you’ve put together. Thanks for continuing the thread and showing results.
Yeah, that’s a problem, because dots and commas are legal characters in a URL. The link recognizer looks for a string of letters beginning with a protocol like http:// and ending before a space or another URL-illegal character. When it finds one, it converts it into a clickable link. I try to remember to add a space after a link, even when it’s not correct punctuation.
Further to the google map: Does anybody know if Google endorses the practice of making a static picture of their map and fiddling with it (putting links on top of it, for example). I know, it is probably somewhere in the small text, but if someone here knows the answer, it is so much more convenient…
Further to the google map: Does anybody know if Google endorses the practice of making a static picture of their map and fiddling with it (putting links on top of it, for example). I know, it is probably somewhere in the small text, but if someone here knows the answer, it is so much more convenient…
Jon
Absolutely no can do. Google “maps” are shown onscreen as tiles of, I think, PNGs. Or maybe some other format. Every tile is copyrighted.
They don’t go out of their way to punish it, and I don’t know how they
would recognize such a thing if they did, barring some sort of
Mechanical Turk implementation. I have done so in the past, always
following these guidelines when I do (and IANAL!): 1. Make the image a
link to the actual Google map for that location, and 2. Maintain the
(c) Google mark in the image.
Walter
On Sep 1, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Jon wrote:
Further to the google map: Does anybody know if Google endorses the
practice of making a static picture of their map and fiddling with
it (putting links on top of it, for example). I know, it is probably
somewhere in the small text, but if someone here knows the answer,
it is so much more convenient…
On Sep 5, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
They don’t go out of their way to punish it, and I don’t know how they would recognize such a thing if they did, barring some sort of Mechanical Turk implementation. I have done so in the past, always following these guidelines when I do (and IANAL!): 1. Make the image a link to the actual Google map for that location, and 2. Maintain the (c) Google mark in the image.
we needed a simplified map for a brochure…
so: grab’d a google street map, threw it into i-pages (i-work … ? ), drew thick black lines over the streets real fast, added a few tilted text boxes with street names, and then tossed the google map. this left us with a nice and simple, very fastly made map of no particular origin that could be pasted into a medical group brochure. no legal issues, no copywrite questions, and real real cheap.
Both Walter’s and Peter’s uses are prohibited. Read the fine print at the link I posted, particularly Paragraphs 2a and 2b. (Peter’s use constitutes a “derivative work.” Map makers have been known to include small deliberate errors in maps to be able to provide proof that a copied work --which would theoretically contain the error-- was derivative.)
Now, whether or not anyone at Google would ever find out, I doubt. Unless some enemy ratted you out!