# Locations on a map?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 24, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251 "2003-02-24T05:23:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@zao](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zao)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251/1 "2003-02-24T05:23:26Z")
I am getting ready to start a new project that about club located all over the world. I would like to make a map that locations pop-up on dynamically, like on [http://www.joshuadavis.com/](http://www.joshuadavis.com/) , just click on “map” and watch what I mean, thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2003, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251/2 "2003-02-24T09:01:35Z")
well this tutorial:
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/captions.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/captions.htm)
has the rollover stuff when you rollover the circles if thats what you meant 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251/3 "2003-02-24T23:44:44Z")
No, that’s not what i meant…I said how to make locations on the map pop-up. I know I could do it manually, but i’m sure josh davis does it dynamically, just wondering if anyone knows, probably not.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251/4 "2003-02-26T07:26:07Z")
hmmmmmmmm
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251/5 "2003-02-26T08:03:18Z")
Well… There’s gotta be tons of ways of doing it…
If I were to do it, I’d create an associative array that holds the name of the movieclip, type, tooltip text, and x & y coordinates… Of course, there’s gotta be some appropriate wrapping involved if the data is coming from outside such as XML…
All you gotta do is to create a function that traverses that array one by one and apply the attachMovie() function to the given coordinate… and apply onRollOver handler to newly created movieclips…
It’s not that hard, I think… :rambo:
I don’t get the point of that map though… Is that map supposed to do something with dynamic external data or something??? I’m just curious… =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251/6 "2003-02-26T09:37:39Z")
just for a fun idea i guess, to show everyone that visits the website , how many clubs are spread out through the world.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251/7 "2003-02-27T04:34:53Z")
Huh??? I don’t quite get it… ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251/8 "2003-02-28T00:09:53Z")
well sorry, i gave an example link, and explained it, so i dont know how else to tell you
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/locations-on-a-map/14251/9 "2003-02-28T13:34:38Z")
Okay, then… :rambo:
Brainstorming session… 😉
> map that locations pop-up on dynamically
> Basically you have locations of club, say, in Indiana in database file format and you want to create a map with it that has some popup window when rolled over that shows some information about the club, right??? What do you mean by _dynamically_, then??? The location of the club will be more likely static, I think…