Paning/Zooming et al

HI All,

Newbie here so kindly bear with me…I am working on this project that involves a lot of visualmapping(think of mapquest), a real crash course I got meself into here but that’s hardly the point.

I want to be able to do the following:
a. load a movie from within an Index animation via menu and have the user interact with the map. I want to achieve pan,zoom, and pretty much just show a portion of the map at any point in time. Help, please…

b. Since there are different maps should I just have one movie with Map Layers so to speak, what are the benefits in doing it this ways vs say having x number of movies for each map.

That’s the lot for now good people. Any help would be most appreciated…

ciao for now…

a: I would use jpg’s instead of movie’s. you can dynamically load them as needed, do a search and it will help for that.
as far as panning and stuff, i’ve seen it a lot but have never tryed so search for that to.

b. Like i said i would use jpg’s so the filesize isn’t huge