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Yes, there are many ways to do what you ask.
Interactive maps
I have a map that I will be using for my D&D game, I was wondering if there was any way to say make an interactive map similar to that of the theme of World of Warcraft so that you can section off certain areas of your map and then click them and have that bring open a new map that is the "area map" of that region? Cause my World maps is MASSIVE in scale and I would like to make Area maps but with ease of access to have my players able to just click on the map and pull up the area map of that specified region.
Yes, there are many ways to do what you ask.
easier said than done , but is is very doable .
i would use a web based set up using Apache or nginx ( i have used Apache a lot for web sites )
a MariaDB
and your web language of your choice
html5 looks very promising , avoid at all costs flash
then a year or 3 to implement it
but there might be something on the market ? i do not know
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Redrobes has set up a couple of things like that for the Guild if you take a look in the Co-op forums. Most recently this: https://www.cartographersguild.com/l...ype=GuildWorld
He may be willing to share his knowledge.
I believe the GuildWorld map used leaflet
http://leafletjs.com/
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This was briefly touched upon in this thread and I put up an example of pretty much what you are asking for using only HTML for the viewing/zoom-in pages. Each level of zoom is a new map, in the example it goes Golarion to Avistan to Varisia to Sandpoint Hinterlands to Sandpoint to Glassworks. So that is from global level down to building level.
Redrobes also put a lot of the Guildworld information in there for Jeremy as well as ViewingDale an impressive program of his own.
Something similar to this very old throwback to WoW
http://web.archive.org/web/200802211...info/flashmap/
Not much more I can add to the thread link that niekell posted. Never did hear back from Jcraulerson. B14d3r11, try the link down to my post and my link to the CWBP1 zoomy map and comment how far that is away from your goal.
While the zooming is a nice feature, I want to be able to section off the map and have them as clickable links that then i guess redirect to another image which is that sectioned off map but with more details? Like how WoW does it where you click Eastern Kingdoms, then can click one of the MANY areas in the Eastern Kingdoms for example we choose Arathi Highlands, which then basically pulls open a new map that shows the "area" level map versus the Continent and World map?Originally Posted by Redrobes
@B14d3r11: What you are describing is exactly the example I provided in the other thread!
I only did one "zoom chain" from world level down to building level but obviously you can do as many as you define on the map at each level of zoom. Was there something about the example which prevented it from meeting your requirements?
I even provided a sample web page to help define the clickable areas... though not how to put them into the zoom-page code (not that it is hard to do).
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