Forum:SH Archive/We need this: Image Map Extensions

I've been poking around MediaWiki for useful image-related stuff, and found this extension. It allows hyperlink areas to be mapped on to an image - in other words, different areas of a single image can be turned into different hyperlinks. This has potential to be very useful; just off the top of my head, it would allow things like a galaxy map with clickable planets and sectors, a starship schematic with clickable parts, or even as a sort of substitute for image tags-- clicking on the face of a character in an image could link to the appropriate article. An example of how this works can be found here.

There's even an image mapper that looks pretty simple to use; you wouldn't have to painstakingly count pixels to use this thing.

I'm not sure how we'd go about installing this, but I was advised to present it here, so... here. :P Thoughts? - Trip 04:53, 3 April 2008 (UTC)