{"id":15539,"date":"2015-06-22T05:01:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T19:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=15539"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:35:22","slug":"australian-indigenous-language-image-map-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/australian-indigenous-language-image-map-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Indigenous Language Image Map Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australian Indigenous Language Image Map Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

We want to show more ideas with Javascript DOM and the HTML map<\/a> element over coming days.<\/p>\n

The HTML map element is a very useful way to combine a graphical image with web functionality, by turning that image into a clickable, by region, entity.<\/p>\n

For the theme of work over the next few days we combine history and geography. Remember at school that history and geography were choices at a certain stage of schooling, but today, we try to use geography to foster an interest in history … after all, where we live is really important to how history pans out for society.<\/p>\n

Was inspired by a story of a several meter high atlas that is currently on display in our New South Wales library … and it takes two people to turn a page, else the weight of the page will tear it with only one person turning.<\/p>\n

This thought of maps combined with me with a story about how diverse and interesting our Australian Indigenous Languages are here in Australia. There are hundreds of languages involved in Australia’s history, though we often only think of English … so take a look at today’s live run<\/a> (HTML source code (you could call) aboriginal_language_regions.html<\/a>) where we show …<\/p>\n