Explore interactive maps, floor plans, geographic maps, diagrams, and photo galleries created with MapsAlive.

Learn about the parts of an electric guitar and link to Wikipedia pages to read even more. Click the music note marker to hear a sound that will conjure up images of Jimmy Hendrix himself.

See the first and second floor of a country home, then go outside to enjoy the views. There's also a map of the local area plus a data sheet with listing details.

Here is a MapsAlive tour that demonstrates the MapZoom feature that lets you zoom the map to see more detail and drag the map in all directions. You can select a location from a dropdown list and the map automatically moves the marker into view on the map.

This interactive map shows business locations in a downtown area. When you mouse over each marker you see details for each business. Clicking on the markers takes you to the individual business web sites if they have one. This example also shows how you can use a drop-down selector to locate businesses on the map.

Explore and find stores in the Old Towne Square Mall on this 2-level interactive map. Search for a store or browse stores by category in the directory.

Here is a locator map that lets you find franchise locations by region. Information about each location is displayed when you mouse over its location marker. Markers can be set to link to each location's own web site when a viewer clicks on them.

What We Saw Today is a project showing one photograph for every day of the year. The entire site was created using MapsAlive.

Hear the voice of Elisabeth von Trapp (granddaughter of Maria von Trapp) when you mouse over the song titles on this interactive music CD. This sample uses the album artwork as the map and the track titles as the hotspots. It displays lyrics while a song is playing. A "Buy" button hotspot links to a web site where you can purchase this CD.

This sample displays a Ready Map of the New England states. Click a state to drill down to another Ready Map showing counties (Massachusetts is shown at left). Each state map shows a star where its capital city is located.

This map shows the USA color coded according to the current temperature for each state's capital city. When you mouse over a state, the current conditions and forecast for that state display. You can make the forecast show the temperature in either Fahrenheit or Celsius by using the checkbox located below the map.

Take an interactive tour of this three level townhouse, the surrounding neighborhood, and the local area. Listing details and contact information are displayed on separate pages and the banner image personalizes the tour.

This example shows how you can display video or other media content like Google maps when you move your mouse over markers on your map. You can display other web pages, flash animations, YouTube videos, and even other MapsAlive tours.

This sample demonstrates some of the different ways you can play sounds. from an interactive map Hear a cow moo or listen to Winston Churchill speak about war. You can even listen to the Star Spangled Banner!

Discover the natural and physical sciences at the Montshire Museum of Science. Two levels of hands-on interior exhibits plus the outdoor Science Park await you. Bring a picnic lunch and walking shoes and explore the Ridge Trail.

This sample uses Text Markers to identify buildings of the Chicago skyline. Notice how a building lights up when you mouse over its text marker. That's done using Shape Markers. The line from the text to the building is drawing using the Routes feature.

One million square feet are represented in this 3D floor plan of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mouse over a gallery name and see a route drawn to it. This map was created with Adobe Illustrator and imported into MapsAlive as scalable vector graphic image.

Check the boxes to see which states have the most and the least population. To learn how this sample was created, go to the Tutorials section in the Learning Center and click Population Map Tutorial.

This sample demonstrates Live Data being read from five different kinds of sources: Web Service, Database, RSS Feed, XML File, and HTML File. It also contains links that let you see the data that is being returned.

Give visitors a superb view of your golf course plus key statistics so they can plan before they go. This tour lets you see everything without clicking or leaving the page and shows how you can brand a tour with your own banner image to display contact information.

This tour demonstrates MapZoom that lets you zoom and drag the campus map to see more detail. The example uses polygon markers for the campus buildings and a categorized directory of locations on the map. The search box makes it easy to locate any building by name.

Tired of looking at samples? Here are some great photos of autumn in Vermont. Seriously though, this sample was created using the Gallery feature of MapsAlive. The gallery is embedded inside an HTML page that displays an image of a gilded picture frame. To see the tour itself without the wrapper page, click here.

In the mood for Italian food? Explore our interactive restaurant menu with photos and descriptions of the antipasti, pasta, and entrees. Creating a menu like this for your own web site is easy with MapsAlive.

Check out this luxury water craft and start planning your next cruise. Picture yourself on deck, at the helm and having a snooze below.

This tour uses a diagram as a map and lets you explore the workings of a coal-fired thermal power station. The diagram had existing numbered squares so the tour made use of a transparent rectangle shape marker with a red border to highlight each step of the process.

Here is a MapsAlive tour that demonstrates the MapZoom feature that lets you zoom the map to see more detail and drag the map in all directions. You can select a location from a dropdown list and the map automatically moves the marker into view on the map.

This sample shows the existing and proposed visitor center exhibits for a national park. It also links to a sample showing a map of the park itself and to a region of the United States showing all intermountain parks.

President Obama asked us to update this sample, but we've just been too busy adding new features to MapsAlive. You would have to click 32 separate Wikipedia pages to get all the information that this sample presents on a single page!

Animal lovers have to see these lovely paintings by Canadian artist Sandy Hucman. Our dog Ginger is the black lab in the second row, fourth position. Thanks Sandy for sharing your artwork with us!

See where wooden bowls come from. The hand-drawn floor plan and large photos let you tour the interior of this woodworking factory, the gallery, and showroom.

Not for the faint of heart, the Beehive trail is short, steep, and spectacular. Perfect for brave souls seeking a challenge and fantastic views of Sand beach, the ocean, and Acadia National Park. Don't look down!

Here is a map of Australia that lets you learn basic facts about each state and territory of Australia when you mouse over them. This is an example of the kind of tour that you could embed right in your own web site to give visitors an overview of a specific destination without leaving your site.

This tour shows a single floor adobe home and includes a page with listing details and a page with area information. This tour would work well as a standalone site or embedded within another web page.

Here is an example that uses a photograph for a map. Mouse over each justice on the photograph to learn more about them. And oh yes, we know this photo is out of date!

This sample shows the a region of the United States showing all intermountain parks. It also links to a sample showing a single park and to that park's visitor center.

Find tenants faster with an interactive floor plan and photos of your propery. This example combines the first and second floor plans in one map image. Add the tour to your web site and publish the URL in a classified ad.

This Ready Map and many more come free with MapsAlive. This sample is very small, but all 50 states are interactive. Mouse over one to learn its median age and household income. The census data used for this sample was imported into MapsAlive from an Excel spreadsheet.

This tour uses polygon shapes to highlight stores in a mall. Detailed information pops up when you move your mouse over a store. The store directory is hand-coded using Custom HTML. It uses the MapsAlive JavaScript API to blink the store location on the map when you mouse over the store name in the directory.

The "map" in this sample is a diagram of internet resources that you can link to from an interactive map. The hotspots are rectangles that are placed over each resource so that when you mouse over a graphic on the diagram the rectangle appears with a glow effect. When the samples first loads it automatically cycles through each resource using the MapsAlive slide show feature.

This sample uses a scalable vector graphic (SVG) map and lets you compare MapZoom with an SVG map image and JPEG map image.

This two story floor plan shows little yellow feet on the staircase. Click them to visit the second floor, then click them again to go back to the first floor.

This tour shows how you can highlight points of interest and photographs for your vacation or travel destination.

Here is an example of how you might create a small tour to embed into your own web site. This tour highlights different views of the White House.

This example shows how you can use a diagram to describe the parts of a flower. The diagram already had the names of each flower part so the markers were created as transparent rectangles with an outline that changes color when you mouse over them. You can create MapsAlive tours for all kinds of devices or processes.

This example shows how you can use MapsAlive tours to locate travel destinations. This kind of tour is ideal for travel or tourism associations to enhance their web sites.

Ready to hit the road? See the interior and exterior of a luxury motor coach. One page of the tour shows the floor plan and another a lot in Florida that was sold with the RV. A third page list technical details.

This demo uses the same three photographs with different Photo Markers. It demonstrates how you can use cropping and special effects to create interesting thumbnails.

This sample demonstrates the Routes feature by drawing paths from two entrances in a hospital. Notice how a gap is created in the route when it passes through closed doors.

You can show more than one photo or video when you mouse over a hotspot on a map. The image-macro and the flash-macro make it easy to do as demonstrated in this sample.

Did you know that you can incorporate Google Maps into the tours you create with MapsAlive? This sample shows you how.

And did you know that you can even display an interactive map inside an interactive map? You can and this sample does just that.

This demo shows how you can control the size of markers and whether they are visible or not as you zoom a map in and out. In the sample, the map is just a grid to help you see what is happening.

This example uses the MapZoom feature to let you zoom in and out of the cemetery map. The tour pops up a photo and text for each location on the map and shows how you can use a dropdown list to select locations on the map.

This simple example shows how routes can be drawn and modified in response to mouse events. Move your mouse over a city and notice how the route changes so that it begins at that city.

Watching too many episodes of Law & Order? Use MapsAlive to show where the perp had been and what evidence he or she left behind. Believe it or not, the real NYPD has used MapsAlive in court to put a real life murder behind bars.

This example shows how you can use a diagram to create a simple tour of the parts of a computer. You can create MapsAlive tours for all kinds of devices or processes.

This is the tour that appears on the MapsAlive home page. We provide it here so that you can see what it looks like by itself. To see how it works, get this sample and import it into your own account.