question on map

I assume that they already know the locations of their hotels on the mapquest map. This means that they konw the co-ordinates of the hotels. They can then overlay the location of the hotels on the map of a particular area, e.g. Miami, Florida using image maps like this.

<area shape="RECT" coords="173,122,191,142" href="http://www.lq.com/lq/properties/propertyProfile.do?ident=blahblah" title="A Hotel" alt="A hotel here"  />  

Sir, i am confused.

ok, what i understand from ur comment is

1. the website (i.e lq.com ) knows the hotel location in the mapquest. for example, suppose there is a Hilton Hotel exists in the MAPQUEST whose location is say "213,234,245,456" . the lq.com knows this information and they are sending a request to the mapquest server exactly with this info along with other params(as similar as mapquest use) and then they get the info from the mapquest. is this right ?


if i am right, there are two problem.

1) the biggest and biggest problem ..lq.com can get  the information but can not get the graphics. how they are showing the graphics ? they may get a textual information. but i am very confused how they are showing the whole image with that particular location.


2) How lq.com knows all the hotel's location which exists in the DB of the mapquest ? do they have any colllaboration ? i think they dont have such collaboration.  i have seen  many websites shows this kind of map.

anyway, whatever be the condition, it would be enough for me if i understand and be able to learn this method.

just one mistake in my post.i have written  hotel location  co-ordinate is ("213,234,245,456") . it should be  2 co-ordinate like(x,y) . becoz 4 cordinates implies the area.

hi blodder,

i saw the view source and found,

code
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<!--MAPQUEST SPECIFIC CODE -->
  <map name="HOTELMAP">

    <!-- ICON POSITIONS -->
                              <area shape="RECT" coords="106,146,125,166" href="http://www.lq.com/lq/properties/propertyProfile.do?ident=LQ667&propId=667" title="La Quinta Inn Miami Airport North" alt="La Quinta Inn Miami Airport North"  />                              <area shape="RECT" coords="84,146,102,166" href="http://www.lq.com/lq/properties/propertyProfile.do?ident=LQ980&propId=980" title="La Quinta Inn & Suites Miami Airport West" alt="La Quinta Inn & Suites Miami Airport West"  />                              <area shape="RECT" coords="173,2,191,22" href="http://www.lq.com/lq/properties/propertyProfile.do?ident=LQ985&propId=985" title="La Quinta Inn & Suites Ft. Lauderdale Airport" alt="La Quinta Inn & Suites Ft. Lauderdale Airport"  />                              <area shape="RECT" coords="128,2,147,22" href="http://www.lq.com/lq/properties/propertyProfile.do?ident=LQ982&propId=982" title="La Quinta Inn & Suites Ft. Lauderdale Plantation" alt="La Quinta Inn & Suites Ft. Lauderdale Plantation"  />                          <!-- END ICON POSITIONS -->
    <area shape="DEFAULT"  />
  </map>


i see here there are the href for hotels. these basically hotels but not the whole map .


will you please simplify the thing.
thank you

my god , i did not know  that kind tag we use !

your posts are very much relevant. thats a very useful link to me. thank you. let  me investigate a bit .