When you do a search in Google, you will find there are plenty of web mapping service applications and solutions available online, including Google Map, Bing Map, Yahoo Map and many more. They offer street maps, business locator for numerious countries of the world. Some even include a search functionality that can be used to locate certain retailers, restaurants, bars, hotels, parks in a geographic area, and let users view high resolution satellite images as well.

But there are many other possible applications that business owners can use for their particular industries and markets. There are many interactive mapping tool which can help you to take advantage of geographic-related data, and to effectively visualize territory and business information by creating your own custom interactive maps.

Interactive map making software usually supports custom definable regions, areas and location points. Users can select pre-designed maps, apply colors to different regions, and pinpoint locations on the map by using pushpin buttons or icons. Mouseover tootips or information box displaying text and images, or links to other PDF documents, websites can also be made in a few steps via the mapping tool.

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As the main purpose of these maps are for navigation or data representation purpose, geographical details such as highways, buildings, rivers are not always necessary, which makes the map cleaner and easier to navigate by visitors. With few click-through on the national, state or county map, visitors can quickly find information or be redirected to specific page about a particular location on the map image.

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Some possible applications using interactive maps on websites including:

Clickable Real Estate Map: A real estate website can display information about the location of commercial and residential real estate available on national, state or county on an interactive map of country, state or county. Additional information about a particular property will be shown when viewers place a mouse over the region or points.

Marketing and Sales Thematic Map: You can create maps using your own marketing and sales data, and use the heat map function of interactive mapping software to generate a graphical representation of regional sales data based on sales volume, so to visualize easily how your sales are distributed among different geography regions, and decide how to spend your marketing budget in order to generate the maximum sales revenue.

Energy Industry: Can use an interactive map on website to display the oil and gas fields in a specific region, with enlarged view of the oil and gas fields showning upon mouseover, and display further information for each oil or gas field in an information box.

Retail Shops / Store Locator: A web-based interactive map helps you to represent the information about your business locations, and allows your customers to find the nearest retail shop or branch location in few mouse clicks. The map software not only shows a simple list of stores or offices, but also a flash clickable map with stunning animation. Using the flash map builder you can highlight zones, pinpoint hotels, retail shops and make them clickable using pushpin button, or attach a photo as desired.

Education: Colleges and schools can use the educationally powerful map building tools to introduce geography and map reading skills to students. The interactive maps can be incorporated with games to teach students physical geography, place name for them to ignite interest in History and Geography.

Interactive Flash maps have become a popular instrument in visualize geospatial business data, and as a navigation tool to help visitors find locations related information quickly. Take advantage of this instrument today, and use interactive map software to help you to create the maps you are looking for quickly.