I observed this problem a few months back, and my suggestion was to
put more muscle into clients, sending them the map configuration file
so that they could highlight hotspots and give better feedback
(dragging would be nice too; I hadn't thought of that one...)
Anyway, one of my co-workers brought back a piece of software from
GopherCon called Blue Skies, which has some nice features. It follows
this model of leaving the handling of map clicks up to the client
instead of the server. It uses weather maps for its demonstrations.
Currently, the only available client is for macintosh. Get it at:
ftp://madlab.sprl.umich.edu/pub/Blue-Skies/Blue-Skies_1.0.sea.hqx
It would be nice to see this type of functionality make it over to the
web... (look out, those gopher people are catching up!!!! :-)
Joe
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