Another (part?) JavaScript map zooming example : http://www.westedmall.com/mallmap/mallmap.asp Note the (upper left) transparent "Heads Up Display" menu bar, ability to click and drag image after zooming in/out, history tracking, and the ability to click on hot spots contained in some layers. Design Team - Mark Morrill, Joseph Schuldhaus, David MacGarva (using Java and Sun's family of Java-branded technologies) : http://www.westedmontonmall.com/mallmap/mapguide.asp

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"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen Was joy to his mighty heart,
"Til the Devil whispered behind the leaves, 'It's pretty, but is it ART ?" - Rudyard Kipling (About Adam who sat under the tree and scratched with a stick in the mould).
"A work of art is, above all, an adventure of the mind." Eugene Ionesco