Working on a project that needs to show a map with ability to highlight the areas on request, as a designer I know it’s tedious work like creating multiple images etc… here is the Free Javascript solution.

mapper.js 2.21 allows you to add automatic area highlighting to image maps on your web pages. It works in all the major browsers – Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari and IE6+.

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The Open Web Analytics (OWA) Framework is an Open Source PHP Framework for Web Analytics that provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that application developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application. This Free Framework also has built-in support for popular web applications such as WordPress and MediaWiki.

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Exhibit is an Open Source Software with which you can Create Data Rich Interactive Web Pages with ease. Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations.

Exhibit is a three-tier web application framework written in Javascript which makes it easier to show number of records on maps, scatter plots, etc in a beautiful interactive way.

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jMaps is very handy jQuery plugin to Manage Google maps. jMaps provides a really easy API to create and manage multiple google maps on any page.

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ASTRA, the ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications, is a collection of Flash and Flex components, code libraries, toolkits and utilities developed by Yahoo! for ActionScript developers.

Flash Components

These components are easily skinnable and fully documented, and wide selection of examples are available to help developers get started quickly.

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The Google Maps API for Flash provides a new way to add interactive Google Maps to your website, using Adobe’s Flash plugin to display dynamic map content! This API exists as a fully independent alternative to the existing JavaScript Maps API, and provides many of the features of that API while also adding the ability to mix Flash content with Google Maps.

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Webnode is a free website creation tool aimed at helping web design novices get a modern-looking website online in minutes. Once you’ve registered for a Webnode account, you’re asked to choose a title and slogan for your new site. Then you select a template and start adding content.

Webnode uses a common modular system which allows you to drag content areas to create different layouts or add content like polls, forums, and photo galleries. There are also widgets for PayPal, Flickr, YouTube, and Google Maps. It lets user to use his own domain instead of somename.webnode.com.

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Diagrams are great, because they are a very simple and extremely efficient way to intelligibly represent even the most complex ideas. But drawing diagrams can also be very complicated, simply because most diagramming softwares require you to draw.

Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application, that allows you to create professional looking diagrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more… for FREE.

Lovely Charts is extremely simple and intuitive drag’n drop drawing mechanism, you’ll be able to focus on what really matters. You won’t have to draw boxes and arrows, you won’t have to worry about what symbol to use.

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OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under a BSD-style License.

OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference – OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.

As a framework, OpenLayers is intended to separate map tools from map data so that all the tools can operate on all the data sources.

Website: http://www.openlayers.org/

Download: http://www.openlayers.org/download/

Google today released a new tool that will make learning and testing code for Google’s Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google’s interactive AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google’s eight Javascript APIs.

Google Javascript APIs:

• Maps
• Search
• Feeds
• Calendar
• Visualization
• Language
• Blogger
• Libraries
• Earth

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