Imagemaps

Berkeley Lab: old Mac utility webmap and imagemap.new

An old Mac utility for making the map of coordinates
used with imagemaps is WebMap


Typical output from WebMap:


#

# Created by WebMap 1.0.1

# Monday, July 3, 1995 at 3:32 PM

# Format: NCSA

default http://www.lbl.gov/

# 1: Search

# 2: Home

# 3: Questions & Comments:

poly  http://www.lbl.gov/Glimpse/search-all.html 158,36 14,37 8,33 3,29 1,19 4,8 13,0 157,0 158,36 
rect  http://www.lbl.gov/ 159,0 288,37 
poly  http://www.lbl.gov/websupport.html 289,36 461,36 472,27 474,16 468,4 457,0 290,0 289,36 


That is, the output is just a plain text file.

So, given a map file like the one shown above whose URL (minus
server name, i.e., minus http://www.lbl.gov) is
/imagemaps/menu-linemap,

here's how you'd invoke the imagemap:


<CENTER>

<A HREF="/cgi-bin/imagemap_new/images/imagemaps/menu-line.map"> 
<img src="/images/PID/menu-line.gif" ISMAP border=0></A>
</CENTER>



You replace "images/imagemaps/menu-line.map"
with the UNIX pathname of your map file. If your map file called
"myfile.map" is in your
public_html directory, and your username is web_writer, use

<A HREF="/cgi-bin/imagemap_new/~web_writer/myfile.map"> 

/images/PID/menu-line.gif


is the GIF image that you've mapped via WebMap.



And you really do need imagemap_new; imagemap is an 
older version that needs another configuration file.