How can I make the map draggable?

How do I make a virtual world/map?

• I have a project due in two weeks and basically, I need to make a map. Instead of cutting out pictures and gluing things together, I want to make my own electronic virtual map where you can zoom in and out of places. So supposedly, you have a big map with all these buildings and then you can click them to enter or something. Even better if the audience can walk down the streets nad click whatever building they want to enter. Doesn't necessarily have to be too interactive, just click, enter, get out, click another building to enter. I want to design the world myself using Adobe Illustrator. Is there some program I can use to put the drawings together? Or should I make a private website? I have no knowledge in programming (that doesn't sound too good, does it?) so any videos or links would be helpful. Thanks!

• Answer:

  It sounds really good. You can create your own maps of each country of either our planet or a fictitious planet and then you create images at zoomed level then more images of extra zoomed level then more images of cities then more images of buildings etc.. Basically, you'll be creating about 150 images so that when the user clicks zoom, the current image is replaced by the next level image. You could just use a web page as all that is required is that the image is replaced by the next level image. When the user zooms out, the larger image replaces the smaller image, that is, not actually larger but less zoomed. To actually zoom (in or out), you would need a + button and a - button. You would need to use links on each image so that the user clicks an image then use code to initiate a number for that location and then the code would then use that number to load in the same number allocated for the next image. For example, The first image is numbered 1 so the zoom button would refer to that number. Include a text box for that number to fill its value then you refer to the text box number value for your referencing. You will need basic knowledge of javascripting, though. You could do the same thing within Excel but you need to know VBA. Maybe Powerpoint would be better but you would still need to know how to implement the button actions. Within Powerpoint, you could just have each page as the next zoomed image. The back button (previous page) would be zoomed out. You'd only be able to use one set of images though and not be able to select different countries, might be better and easier than creating 150 images, you only need one set from start to finish.