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Image Map Exercise Create an image map of you home town and add hot spots to link to three pages about the areas indicated by the hot spots.

Diagram of how home town image map will navigate your pages.

Visit these two sites using the address for you home town TerraFly for aerial and satellite photos. Microsoft TerraServer for aerial and satellite photos: Google Maps and Satellite images: Mapquest for map and directions.

U Mass Lowell, (Terrafly 2m)

Finding and saving a map of your hometown 1.Log into mapquest.com and use an address in your hometown to get a map. 2.Use the normal save image_as method to capture the image. 3.Save it to your computer and rename it to match city name, e.g. lowell.gif

Copy yellow area below and Paste it into Composer SaveAs -- imagemap.html

Steps in Composer 1.Remove red text and insert your image of your hometown in its place. 2.Create a link to your home page see green box (remove green box ) 3.Save as imagemap.html

Using MapEdit to create the hot spots in imagemap.html Close Composer after saving the page as imagemap.html Download and install MapEdit on your computer. Open MapEdit and select [Open A Web Page]

Creating the image map Open – imagemap.html Should see a map in the window. Use the Rectangle button to place a rectangular hot spot Use Circle to create a circular hot spot Use polygon to create polygonal one. –Left button to create points –Right to close (end)