dynamic map

[piyush]

All,

Has any one try creating maps with dontnet - dynamically while serving
on the web? E.g. if I have maps of different counties and I want to
construct a map of the state using county maps - how would that be done
programmaticall y?

Is this worth doing or to use any off-the-shelf product if it costs
within 200/300 $.

Thanks,
Piyush

[Ben Solomon]

RE: dynamic map

It's opened ended but you would know the state based on user selection
and I would have county maps stored as "blobs" (special DB data type that
can handle images/graphics) in a table where the there would be a "State"
field and a "County" field plus a "Flag field" for the graphics. More fields
would be needed if one would try for a solution where any country can
be selected too.

I'd then retrieve programmaticall y all flags for a given state base when
the the state is selected on the page (ideally one would have some 3rd party
ActiveX control that outlines a country and the states within that allowes
the areas to be "painted" too.

A simpler but not as general approach would be to store the flag images
on a state by state basis in separate web folders.

Above is a high level outline of a general approach. Of course there's a
lot of detail to it.

If a $200 package can do it than that seems simple compared to the programming
time needed.

"piyush" wrote:
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> All,
>
> Has any one try creating maps with dontnet - dynamically while serving
> on the web? E.g. if I have maps of different counties and I want to
> construct a map of the state using county maps - how would that be done
> programmaticall y?
>
> Is this worth doing or to use any off-the-shelf product if it costs
> within 200/300 $.
>
> Thanks,
> Piyush
>
>[/color]

[piyush]

Re: dynamic map

I understand your answer from algorithmic point of view. I wanted to
know the tools, classes available within/with dot net that can do this?
-Piyush