illustrator map to imagemap automatically? or is there a better way?

Question

i have a vector illustrator file with all the counties of california as distinct paths. i need to have these counties be links to other pages online. is there a way to automatically generate an html imagemap from this file? illustrator provides an export as jpg function that has options for polygonal imagemap shapes, but it isnt working.

alternatively, do you have an opinion about the usage these days of imagemaps at all and whether i should approach this another way.

yes, i know i could do this in flash but i want to avoid that.

thanks!

Answer 1

Here's a similar question (using svg maps from Wikipedia): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2054438/suggestions-on-manipulating-an-svg-map