Use an image to capture mouse coordinates in the post creation screen

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    markdturner85 · Member ·

    This is probably a long shot but does anyone know how I could implement the following functionality:

    I want the all the posts on my site to appear as a series of pins on a map. The map is not a real word map so using any solution using Google Maps is out.
    On the front end it is easy to place HTML regions on the screen, based on coordinates I can store against each post in WordPress.

    Now the hard bit,

    In order to capture these coordinates in the first place I intend to use JavaScript to capture the mouse position when the user clicks somewhere in a DIV holding a copy of the image used on the front end. That way the coordinates will map across correctly. I could maybe use some type of custom post to add a field to hold the captured coordinates, but I still have no clue how I can include the map image into the post creation screen or how I could attach the JavaScript to the page. I suppose I could just hack it and put the JavaScript in-line.

    Hopefully I’ve explained what I’m trying to do ok, does anyone have any ideas how to do it?

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