Help for writing a click event for a custom map

Question

I have an image of the political map of the USA. I want to write separate click events for each of the 50 states in Visual Studio. How would I do that?

Answer 1

Suggest you get your hands on something like Macromedia Fireworks which allow you to create image maps.

This article explains how to do it using photoshop.

http://www.createblog.com/photoshop-tutorials/736-photoshop-image-maps/

Or even online web site

http://www.image-maps.com

Or even this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:USA_imagemap_with_state_names

Answer 2

If a static HTML map is what you want, then use an ImageMap control

In winforms that may be a little more work than you want to do.

There are no 'shape' controls so you would have to define a virtual map and just monitor click events.

Your best bet is to use WPF or Silverlight. That would be a piece of cake. polys in WPF are first class citizens and have events. It will look real purty too.

And I am sure there are already defined maps xaml on the google. (map, article)