Question

I’m using AJAX to update a table from a database. The table is great, that is what I was original after. But now I have a need for additional information from that database. I would like to collect the Lat & Long values and plot them in a map. I would also like to limit select options based on what is in the table. I thought about reproducing the query locally, but what a waste. How is the best way to do that? Thanks.

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Answer 1

If you have the latitute and longitude values stored in the DB, you can do this.

1. Give the image an image map.
2. Translate the latitute and longitude values to suit the image’s dimensions.
3. Position the map with those translated dimensions.
4. Give CSS Colouring or Background and also title.

To know about image maps: see this and this.

To know about CSS: see this.