[thelist] Building a Clickable World Map in .NET

[Stephen Rider]

On Jul 13, 2004, at 2:49 PM, Jonathan Karlen wrote:

> I need to build a world map in .NET.  The onClick event of an
> ImageButton object supplies the X and the Y.  The image map I was given
> to work on is all in polygrams so just knowing the X and the Y doesn't
> do necessarily accomplish anything unless X and Y match a point exactly
> on the polygram.  Databasing each pixel on the map and its 
> corresponding
> country isn't exactly a streamlined process.

You are saying "I want to use this method", but not clearly saying what 
you want to _accomplish_ using that method.  What is supposed to happen 
when a user clicks on a part of the map?

You seem to be starting with an image map -- so far so good -- but what 
are you trying to accomplish?