Hi all, I have a client that wants to have a "map" of an area, and then you tap on the buildings to get more information (we can just link that to another screen easy) - but the hard part is that "interactive" map idea. What would be awesome is to have a image of whatever map they give me, whether it is a real map or a cartoonish map, and have pins placed on them that link to screens - no idea how to do that. I even thought of a button menu with invisible buttons on top of the map, but that might get a little too tricky depending on the map they send me. Any suggestions would be super appreciated. You guys rock. David https://buzztouchmods.com

Are you talking about iOS or Android? Have you taken a look at stackoverflow yet for a solution?

iOS only, and nope, rather get my advice from you guys before using other sites, maybe someone here can use the same solution in the future :-) David https://buzztouchmods.com

How about a word doc with a collage of the map in many seperate pics lined up togeather to look like one pic on a word doc. Each picture would have a link attached to it and when the user touches a building of point of interest, the link brings them to another page. .... Just thinking out loud.... Don't know if it can be easily done

Are you using a framework? If your just using an image and know where the buildings are, just through uibuttons on the image via IB or androids version of IB (interface builder). If your using an image but it needs to be dynamic, download a set of points of the locations of the houses and throw uibuttons (invisible) down programatically with addSubview. If you need more help with iOS just PM me. -tM

I create Garmin compatible maps for our region. Huge maps get broken into 'tiles', but if you don't have some software to clip/catalog/reassign your map tiles then you may run into issues You might think about defining the entire map area as a 'region' and then depending on what area of the screen/map they tapped would dictate what (if anything) would occur. Hot spot definitions could have a 'radius' of effective tap area, etcetera... Invisible buttons could work as well, but I don't think the menu buttons plugin would cut it. It would probably need to be a custom screen of some nature. Just my $0.02 Cheers! -- Smug

You might want to look at Hype for Mac. It's actually 1/2 price today here: http://deals.macupdate.com/ Think Flash animations, but iOS device friendly. Using HTML5 Good luck! Andy

If I understood you correctly, this html technique might do it http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/imagemap.shtml

Hey David, Here's a good article on the idea. I was looking at doing something for a client too. Haven't tried this yet. http://i.ndigo.com.br/2012/05/ios-maps-with-image-overlays/ Jeff

@MrDavid Brilliant idea. Something to might consider is using Aurasma plugin too. @McGoBlue nice to see your smile!

Thanks @Sheri. Good to be back.

Have the client make their own "my places" in google maps. Have a link in your app to this. It will open up maps and all of that other info can be linked via their pins. Or you can make a kml that pulls up Google Earth when clicked.

If you have a custom "map", such as an internal layout within a building, see if MapBox will be suitable. At first, you can try with their MapBox app for iOS to validate your points and layers by using TileMill to generate the custom maps. Then implement within your app with their iOS SDK. http://www.MapBox.com -- Niraj

Hooray! @MGoBlue!! now that's exciting to see :) and then bringing the goods with that mkmapview tutorial. and you wonder why we would have missed you. great tutorial. I am going to tear into that in the near future, looks solid. @mgo We've got a guy around here named kittsy that is a really, really good at integrating these into BT code. IIRC he is working with some map code and I bet will find this interesting too! betcha can't wait for March madness! Burke looks SOLID!

@mrdavid - how soon? does that tutorial look doable to you? I need to study it a bit more but if you want to discuss this.....

Thanks to everyone for your ideas, trying to figure out which one is the best, but definetley @MGoBlue that's exactly what I need - if I can impliment it is a whole different thing! @atrain let's discuss! call me / text me. Thanks again all! Cheers, David https://buzztouchmods.com

We can implement that ;) Let me look at it closer later today, maybe on my way home I'll study it and we'll catch up tomorrow? Gotta finish some real work up today and want to get into that 2.1.8 upgrade while I'm in the office.

@atrain thanks a ton. Yup connect tomorrow then, I will be up ALL NIGHT upgrading 20+ servers to 2.1.8, I'm probably the only one ecstatic about AND dreading the release LOL. p.s. if we get this figured out we need to release a guide or plugin or something so others can do this too. Cheers, David https://buzztouchmods.com

@ATrain can't wait to see what you and @MrDavid come up with. I haven't had time to play with the tutorial, but it looks solid. Yes, bring on March Madness. Great game last night.

This showed up in my inbox. Seems like it fits the bill. http://maniacdev.com/2013/02/ios-ui-control-allowing-you-to-easily-create-interactive-image-maps/