Easy software to create interactive maps?

I need to create an interactive world map showing all countries. Each country needs different color settings and link to a different HTML page about that country . Also need a similar map for the US with all the 50 states.

I found few websites providing a solution for this, and the imapbuilder mapping software seems easy enough to use with its map templates. H

owever the problem is all the maps it generates are in flash format. I need a standard image map in HTML for this purpose, i.e. base on <map> tag to build a client-side image-map, so that I can use PHP to generate dynamic code. Does anyone know a simple solution for this? Open source?

 

I was looking for the same thing today, and realized that nobody had given me a response, then saw your thread, the same. So, I googled quickly and found this. I dont know if this is what you are exactly looking for, but check it out


A map that changes colours upon hovering.
http://davidlynch.org/projects/maphilight/docs/demo_usa.html

http://www.petercollingridge.co.uk/data-visualisation/interactive-svg-map


and this

http://playground.mobily.pl/tutorials/building-an-interactive-map-with-raphael.html


good luck

 

Thanks for the reply. The imapbuilder mapping software I mentioned has launched an online version which supports both flash map, Google map and HTML5 map for cross-platform support. So I have solved my problem with their software.

 

ohhhh it is very good sistem