ASP.Net Control to create points on a map

[FastEddie]

I am trying to create an application where I can plot points on an image. The images are all overhead shots of city blocks (They are custom images and not Google maps). I am trying to make it so that i can:

1) Show basic info with a mouse hover
2) Create clickable links for more info

At this point I am pretty sure that it would be best to use a third party control but I haven't found one that works well for this project. This is one of the third party components that I tried. I was able to get the application to build and open up but the demo didn't work any better then the one they put online so I have written it off. Does anybody have any suggestions for another project?

powerWEB Zoom 'Points of Interest'

[mendhak]

Do a search on HTML IMAGE MAPs. It lets you define hotspots on an image which are links to other pages (or other resources, etc). It appears that's what you're looking for.

[FastEddie]

Thanks mendhak. I started out with HTML image maps but out of the box they don't really provide me a way to show the "push pin" on top of the image (or an type of marker). I did find some hacks to make it happen but none of them were very pretty and I have to make this so that non technical people can set the plot points.

[Kasracer]

Sounds like you should take a look at the Google Maps API. It's very powerful and does exactly what you need.

[mendhak]

If they're custom images and not Live Earth/Google Maps/Yahoo Maps as you're saying, then you'll pretty much need to come up with your own way of adding a pushpin on top. The 'pushpin' is nothing but an image sitting above the 'background' image (city blocks).

It's occurred to me that with the profusion of drag-able maps with indicators on it, someone would have come up with some sort of a framework or base-application for this kind of stuff, involving layers of images and other images which can be added on top. Hmm...