[mapserver-users] small maps of alaska and hawaii

[Stephen Woodbridge]

If you are using something like OpenLayers under the hood, you might 
just create three separate maps, one for each region. You can set the 
maxextents for each map to prevent scrolling outside that area.

This way each map would have its own controls and its own div and each 
could respond to events in their respective div.

This is definitely not a mapserver issue, but it is an interesting problem.

-Steve

Julie Knoll wrote:
> Thats what I originally thought about doing, but I don't know how I 
> would go about converting it to the right coordinates when the user 
> clicks on the map. The site I'm working on is 
> http://geofred.stlouisfed.org  There's so many other things going on 
> server side to calculate the data and what not that maybe its just not 
> worth the effort.
> 
> Julie
> 
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Stephen Woodbridge 
> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Julie Knoll wrote:
> 
>         Hi, I am working on a site that displays thematic data for the
>         United States, and I would like to include small maps for Alaska
>         and Hawaii in the corners of the main map, rather than having to
>         zoom so far out to see them.  Does anyone have any suggestions
>         about the best way of going about doing this? Thanks.
> 
> 
>     This is really a composition problem where you need to compose a
>     single image from multiple separate images. The answer really
>     depends on what media you are using like html, pdf, etc.
> 
>     If you are trying to do this in a web application I would recommend
>     an approach some like:
> 
>     Using PHP/Mapscript, generate you three images and then use PHP GD
>     to compose the three images into a single image and then return that
>     to the browser. You can use a similar approach if you are using PDF
>     depending on the PDF lib you are using.
> 
>     -Steve W
> 
>