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From: Hugh Watkins <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Adding "Targets" to "Mapped" .jpg images
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 01:17:32 +0000
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I don't know how to do it


but layers with a redspot or arrowe
added over the photo as background might do it

you see it on professional map sites all the time


http://multimap.co.uk/

Location: B37 5BX United Kingdom
Grid ref: SP168868 Postcode district: B37 5xx (map centre)
X: 416900m Y: 286900m
Lat: 52:28:47N (52.4797) Lon: 1:45:10W (-1.7528)
Web Address:
www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=52.4797&lon=-1.7528&scale=10000&icon=x


"view source" reveals how they do it



if you click on the little camrera icon
"Ariel"
http://multimap.co.uk/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=417000&Y=287000&scale=10000&width=500&height=300&gride=416883&gridn=286894&lang=&db=pc&coordsys=gb


it looks even better
"mouse over " shows the street names too

Hugh W

On 7/5/05, ancestors_r_us <> wrote:
>
> I know how to "map" an aerial photograph of a cemetery so that by clicking on a grave's location, the viewer will be taken to a "target" placed in the transcription page.
>
> Is there a way to place a "target" at "mapped" coordinates on the photograph so that by clicking on a link in the transcription page the viewer will be taken to the aerial photo page, with the "targeted" coordinates in the top-left corner (or center) of the screen?
>
> I do not wish to chop up the photo; as that will defeat the purpose of identifying where (relative to highway intersections, tree groupings, etc) in this VERY large cemetery, the headstone is located.
>
> I map and write code by hand with an old (pre-1995) wordprocessor program.
>
> Thanks for your "guru-help"
> -Phil
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