[okfn-labs] Help: How do I create mouse-over images on maps?

Wed Oct 17 19:49:01 UTC 2012

And: Gregor fixed it!

https://github.com/pudo/newsapps/pull/1

One boy scout badge for that guy, please!

- Friedrich

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hey Nate,
>
> ( I'm cc'ing okfn-labs so that others can chime in. )
>
> I think it'll be hard to make an interactive version out of the GIF
> file you have listed. What you probably need it a Shapefile (or at
> least an SVG). Once you have a shapefile of Nigeria (quick google
> search turned up
> http://www.maplibrary.org/stacks/africa/Nigeria/index.php but I don't
> know which admin level you are looking at), you can convert it to a
> web-compatible SVG with Kartograph (cf.
> http://kartograph.org/docs/kartograph.py/) and then use the JS version
> of Kartograph to make a Raphael-based map with hover events that you
> can use to update the other panel.
>
> I used to have a simple example here, but it hot-linked Kartograph and
> Gregor seems to have changed the API :(
> http://newsapps.pudo.org/BosniaMedia/ - Still, most of the code should
> be working.
>
> Cheers,
>
>  - Friedrich
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Nate Mamman <neightman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Friedrich:
>>
>> How do you do? Thanks for all the help you have been given us. I would
>> be in touch with you very soon about the merged tables/treemaps
>> visualization.
>>
>> In the mean time, I have a very urgent problem. I am wondering if you
>> could help me with pointers. i am forwading a message I sent to OKFN
>> geo-data mailing list.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Nate
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> I am working on an open data-project (State Governorship elections),
>> and I am presently stumped. How do I create a map from this:
>> http://speakersoffice.gov.ng/images/map.ondo1.gif
>> so it can give me mouse-over effects like the map here:
>> http://raphaeljs.com/australia.html.
>>
>> I am working on a very tight dealine, and so would appreciate any
>> immediate help.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Nate Mamman
>> Nigeria
>>
>> --
>> NKM
>>
>>
>> --
>> NKM
>
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