Do an online search and you will find many interactive map of United States, including maps showing US immigration data, maps showing the stimulus spending by state, map of bank failures, election results etc. Beside government websites, many websites doing business or survey in the United States are also using a clickable US interactive map for easy and clear presentation of geographical and statistics data.

With a clickable, interactive US map, a visitor can simply roll their mouse cursor over a territory, and the information about that state or county will show in a popup tooltip box on mouse hover, showing text, images and hyperlinks. Then the visitor can click the links in the tooltip to get further information or redirected to a corresponding page.

Many company websites with state maps are using an interactive United State maps to show branch offices, sales statistics figures by states, driving directions, traveling route maps. An interactive map can also be used as store locator, property finder so to improve the easiness of website navigation.

With a clickable interactive US map of all states and counties, visitors can firstly click on a state (e.g. texas, florida) from the map, see a map with counties within that state. Then click a county to view the related information. Map hover text can be applied to provide hints and to make the navigation even easier.

In the United States, there are more than 3000 county-equivalent administrative units in total. There are on average 62 counties per state. It would take enormous amount of time and efforts, if you try to create an US map with all counties by drawing from scratch using a graphic software such as photoshop or PowerPoint.

There is no need to re-invent the wheel. You can save lots of time by using ready made map templates for the US, including map templates for all the US counties. There are few options for creating clickable, interactive map of the USA where all the individual states can display a different color, and show a popup box when you roll over them. You can also add clickable points and your own custom icons.

Although most people's first idea of mapping software is Google map, Google map might not be the solution which suits all websites mapping needs. Google map provides an online solution to pinpoint locations on the map by simply type in an address, or using latitude and longitude coordinates. However, Google map does not provide an easy solution if you need to set counties in different color, or display information upon mouse roll over on a state or county. In addition, Google Map uses JavaScript extensively and any customization requires an in depth understanding of Google Map API. This makes Google Map an overkill and not suitable to use for website navigation and information retrieval base on state or county.

To create an interactive clickable United State map with all counties, another option is to use iMapBuilder -- interactive map building software. iMapBuilder comes with ready made interactive US map templates, including US county maps for every state. You can set the color, title, link of each county, and also input text and image for mouseover tooltip. You can create national, regional, state, and county maps with clickable hotspot areas, and can be easily embed the clickable map to web page without any Javascript or API coding.

iMapBuilder interactive map software can help you to create interactive maps, clickable world map easily, it is simple enough to use by anyone who have used MS-Windows for word processing or web surfing, and comes with a gallery of ready made United State map templates and world countries map templates.

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More About iMapBuilder Interactive Map Software

What is iMapBuilder - Interactive Map Software?



iMapBuilder interactive maps software is an user-friendly, interactive map making software for MS-Windows. You can use iMapbuilder to create an interactive flash map for websites, multimedia presentaions, or as a branch office locator. Map editing is easy using iMapbuilder, no any programming skills or additional flash editing software is required.


 

What maps does iMapBuilder interactive map software support?



In current version, iMapbuilder includes the following maps:

• Interactive World Map
• Interactive US Map
• Interactive UK Map
• Interactive Canda Map


You can also import your own map image in JPG/PNG format, to create an interactive map easily.

For additional flash maps of more countries, please visit our flash maps gallery. You might also like to checkout some custom flash map we have developed which are used for real estate websites, travel agencies, and as branch offices locators.


 

How to create map with flash using iMapbuilder? Do I need any programming knowledge?

One of the greatest advantages of iMapBuilder is that you don't need to have any technical knowledge what so ever. You will be able create your customized Flash maps in a matter of few clicks. No programming or Actionscript knowledge is required. Simply use the iMapBuilder map wizard to select a flash map template, edit the map using few mouse clicks, and you will have a interactive map ready to use with your color settings, text, and links. It is as easy as using your word processor software programs.


 

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