On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Thijs Lensselink <dev@lenss.nl> wrote:

> Quoting Angelo Zanetti <angelo@elemental.co.za>:
>
> Hi Guys,
>>
>> We have a project where by we have a map in ai format (vector format).
>> What
>> we want to do is to programmatically come up with a solution that say on
>> the
>> map there is a restaurant at a certain location, that we can zoom into the
>> map on that specific area.
>>
>> I really am not sure where to start. I guess image maps arent going to
>> work
>> are they?
>>
>> Should I be using the GD library for manipulating the images and doing
>> zooming? Also will the ai format be supported?
>>
>> Please guys, any tips, links or help is appreciated.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Angelo
>>
>>
> I think doing something like this with GD is nearly impossible.
>
> But you could import the vector image in flash/flex. Draw an invisible
> grid over it to create some sort of long / lat coordinats.
>
> Or maybe just move to the google / yahoo map API's.
>

I guess GoogleMap API can do this. But you are working on javascript ..