Posted by paul on 01/26/06 14:18

Hi all,
I'd like to ask a quick question. Its probably got a simple answer!

I'm creating a clickable image map for a website - now this doesn't
present any problems as I have created client side maps in the past.
But this time, what I would like is to get the co-ordinate of the
clicked area. Is there any way of doing this and then making those
co-ordinates available server side?

The reason for this is as follows: my map will contain many different
areas, some overlapping, or contained within other areas.

If I have just one overlapped area for two shapes, then this will lead
to three clickable areas. With many such overlaps, the amount of
calculation required to find such areas will be horrible (the areas are
obtained from a database which is going to be updated on a regular
basis).

So, what I was thinking was:
get the co-ordinates of the clicked point; do the processing server
side and then sent the client a webpage listing all the areas "found"
in the clicked region.
Is this possible?

Hope that makes sense!

Thanks

Paul

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