How to creat a map: several questions

Doug Stewart · External Since: Feb 24, 2005 Posts: 56

I need to put an outline map of France on my site. Can't find any on the web
that I like, so I need to creat one myself. The requirements are:
- Outline of France
- Showing each of the major regions of France in a different color
- Each of the regions has a hyperlink to a page on my site

What is the best way to do this? I would guess that I need to creat a gif
file showing France and its regions, color in the regions, then use
FrontPage's hotspots to make the regions clickable. Is there a better way?

Is there some simple and cheap SW to creat the GIF (even if it is just free
for a trial period)? I've never done this before, so simple would be nice.

Also, if I have to draw each region on the GIF and then outline each region
using HOTSPOTS, I'm doing the same work twice. Is there some way to do it
only once?

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Doug

Dan L · External Since: Mar 24, 2005 Posts: 203

Why not use http://www.info-france-usa.org/atoz/map.asp ??

"Doug Stewart" wrote:

> I need to put an outline map of France on my site. Can't find any on the web
> that I like, so I need to creat one myself. The requirements are:
> - Outline of France
> - Showing each of the major regions of France in a different color
> - Each of the regions has a hyperlink to a page on my site
>
> What is the best way to do this? I would guess that I need to creat a gif
> file showing France and its regions, color in the regions, then use
> FrontPage's hotspots to make the regions clickable. Is there a better way?
>
> Is there some simple and cheap SW to creat the GIF (even if it is just free
> for a trial period)? I've never done this before, so simple would be nice.
>
> Also, if I have to draw each region on the GIF and then outline each region
> using HOTSPOTS, I'm doing the same work twice. Is there some way to do it
> only once?
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips.
>
> Doug

"Cowboy · External Since: Nov 02, 2005 Posts: 20

Paint.NET is free and has many features like PhotoShop. Both PhotoShop and
the JASC product have trials. You can even import a map in MSPaint and color
regions, if you can find a black and white map.

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"Doug Stewart" <DougStewart.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7D4CB2F3-9C8F-4522-B2CD-086B061E5C96@microsoft.com...
>I need to put an outline map of France on my site. Can't find any on the
>web
> that I like, so I need to creat one myself. The requirements are:
> - Outline of France
> - Showing each of the major regions of France in a different color
> - Each of the regions has a hyperlink to a page on my site
>
> What is the best way to do this? I would guess that I need to creat a gif
> file showing France and its regions, color in the regions, then use
> FrontPage's hotspots to make the regions clickable. Is there a better way?
>
> Is there some simple and cheap SW to creat the GIF (even if it is just
> free
> for a trial period)? I've never done this before, so simple would be nice.
>
> Also, if I have to draw each region on the GIF and then outline each
> region
> using HOTSPOTS, I'm doing the same work twice. Is there some way to do it
> only once?
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips.
>
> Doug

Tom Pepper Willett · External Since: Jun 07, 2005 Posts: 813

Go to Google, click on Images, and enter a search time for what you are
looking for. Many France maps will com up.
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"Doug Stewart" <DougStewart RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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|I need to put an outline map of France on my site. Can't find any on the
web
| that I like, so I need to creat one myself. The requirements are:
| - Outline of France
| - Showing each of the major regions of France in a different color
| - Each of the regions has a hyperlink to a page on my site
|
| What is the best way to do this? I would guess that I need to creat a gif
| file showing France and its regions, color in the regions, then use
| FrontPage's hotspots to make the regions clickable. Is there a better way?
|
| Is there some simple and cheap SW to creat the GIF (even if it is just
free
| for a trial period)? I've never done this before, so simple would be nice.
|
| Also, if I have to draw each region on the GIF and then outline each
region
| using HOTSPOTS, I'm doing the same work twice. Is there some way to do it
| only once?
|
| Thanks in advance for any tips.
|
| Doug

Tom Pepper Willett · External Since: Jun 07, 2005 Posts: 813

For example: search for "france map outline" came up with several,
including:
http://www.travelnotes.org/1800/Countries/Maps/france.htm
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"Tom Pepper Willett" <tompepper.DeleteThis@mvps.invalid> wrote in message
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| Go to Google, click on Images, and enter a search time for what you are
| looking for. Many France maps will com up.
| --
| ===
| Tom "Pepper" Willett
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| ---
| FrontPage Support:
| http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
|
| About FrontPage 2003:
| http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
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| "Doug Stewart" <DougStewart.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:7D4CB2F3-9C8F-4522-B2CD-086B061E5C96@microsoft.com...
||I need to put an outline map of France on my site. Can't find any on the
| web
|| that I like, so I need to creat one myself. The requirements are:
|| - Outline of France
|| - Showing each of the major regions of France in a different color
|| - Each of the regions has a hyperlink to a page on my site
||
|| What is the best way to do this? I would guess that I need to creat a gif
|| file showing France and its regions, color in the regions, then use
|| FrontPage's hotspots to make the regions clickable. Is there a better
way?
||
|| Is there some simple and cheap SW to creat the GIF (even if it is just
| free
|| for a trial period)? I've never done this before, so simple would be
nice.
||
|| Also, if I have to draw each region on the GIF and then outline each
| region
|| using HOTSPOTS, I'm doing the same work twice. Is there some way to do it
|| only once?
||
|| Thanks in advance for any tips.
||
|| Doug
|
|

Doug Stewart · External Since: Feb 24, 2005 Posts: 56

Gregory: Thank you very much. MSPaint did exactly what I wanted. I'm now
trying to add hyperlinks and having a bit of an issues (just posted another
question), but your response provided a perfect and elegant solution.

Dan and Tom: Thanks for the pointers to the existing maps. Have looked at
all of these, but as the map is pretty central to my site it needs to be
exactly what I need. Each of the maps I've found (having looked at about 200
sites) have problems (e.g. have to add pointers back to owner, map has too
much surrounding information, etc.). However, appreciate the suggestions.

Very best regards,
Doug Stewart

TWF · External Since: Sep 14, 2009 Posts: 2

1) How do I post a question?
2) How do I embed a map from google in a webpage I am editing with FrontPage?

"Doug Stewart" wrote:

> I need to put an outline map of France on my site. Can't find any on the web
> that I like, so I need to creat one myself. The requirements are:
> - Outline of France
> - Showing each of the major regions of France in a different color
> - Each of the regions has a hyperlink to a page on my site
>
> What is the best way to do this? I would guess that I need to creat a gif
> file showing France and its regions, color in the regions, then use
> FrontPage's hotspots to make the regions clickable. Is there a better way?
>
> Is there some simple and cheap SW to creat the GIF (even if it is just free
> for a trial period)? I've never done this before, so simple would be nice.
>
> Also, if I have to draw each region on the GIF and then outline each region
> using HOTSPOTS, I'm doing the same work twice. Is there some way to do it
> only once?
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips.
>
> Doug