need to make a clickable world map

Has anyone out there had the joy of creating a world map that can be clicked on and zoomed in on regions to see listings in that region? Are there any open source scripts that you know of?
thanks

 

personally i think your best bet here is to use the google maps api and hook into that. why re-invent the wheel. check out this tutorial on using it. http://www.coastrentals.com/tech/20...g-tutorial-with-the-google-maps-api-part-one/

 

Seconding the Google Maps suggestion. Its really quite easy to get it going, and there are a ton of resources out there to help out.

 

I'm not sure that's what I want though

Basically, I have listings for distributors in certain regions. I want users to be able to select their region, and see the listed distributors...

 

so slice up the image into regions and in the database set a region code for each distributer. then make the region image for the regions goto like locate.php?region=1 and the have region.php pull out all the stores within region 1

 

Darn, I hate manual work...

 

haha, don't we all? it needs to be done though unfortunately