Quote Originally Posted by Redrobes View Post
No images on their own are interactive. You need to upload some html which has the coords for the interactive zones with the image and host it. So this format is not very compatible with wikis, and other web site builders unless they have their own kind of interactive management parts built into them. The old way of doing this kind of thing was to use "flash" but that went out of fashion since flash was riddled with security holes in it. I wrote my program precisely because I never saw a proper solution to this.

This is a youtube vid I did ages ago of our CWBP put into the program. I do all of our community projects in ViewingDale and upload them here on this site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qELcbKXdRm8

If you go to the community pages and look for CWBP, CWBP II and CWBP III, the community dungeon and the community city project them all of them have been done with this app. With the app I can then export the mosaic of tiles that we all map and then I put it into the pan and zoom web interface:
https://www.cartographersguild.com/f...splay.php?f=91
e.g.
https://www.cartographersguild.com/l...type=guildcity

This is using the Leaflet interface:
https://leafletjs.com/

If you zoom on the guild city to Mouse's "Atlas Stadium" then you will find a little scroll icon designed by J.E. and if you click that then it takes you to Mouses fishished maps page. Now you can see that it is possible to attach web links to a zoomable map and this was desired linking method of my app but done in web site compatible code.

But... using leaflet and getting this set up is a pain and is difficult and beyond what I would want to be able to describe on a forum page. The leaflet page has tons of help so you can read through that but I use some code and all sorts of hacks to get this on this forum. The process was made much easier and better with my app which is why I use it to generate the images for leaflet upload but it was not popular and I lost a lot of money over it so its been abandoned for sale and now I just use leaflet here for you guys instead. But if your a bit of a hackster then check out Leaflet and try to build up some maps using that. Fundamentally its a great bit of javascript work there.

So its possible using some custom html which is tedious, leaflet which is great but needs some code, flash which is mostly abandoned as a technology, or another VTT like maybe maptool and maybe there are other apps out there that I dont know about or have forgotten exist but its not a straight forward thing to do. If it were me and I didnt have my app and I could not code leaflet then I would do it with a wiki. We used to have a guild wiki for the CWBP projects but given that anyone could modify it then it became a spam dump so it was pulled.
Right, I'm aware of how to define image maps in HTML, but as you said it's enormously tedious because you need to find the coordinates for each corner, then define those, but it doesn't have the highlight functionality to better define which area you're looking to 'go to.'

The HTML/CSS is embedded in the .svg file, at least as far as I can tell. I looked at MapTool, but that focuses on combat maps, rather than for organizing dungeon maps for specific areas.

Leaflet looks interesting, but tedious and overkill for my purposes, I don't need it to be mobile compatible, or zoomeable, or even available to the players, just something where I know what I'm clicking on, and can click on it.