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by jes5199 2223 days ago
the modern web just doesn’t do that, though. I don’t think I’ve seen a clickable polygon in the last 15 years
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I saw a site not too long ago that had a map of U.S. states with state changes on hover and click. It was just a bunch of SVG's in an <ul>. So it's possible, but it takes some braining.
My city's COVID-19 map breaks it down by clickable zip code regions.
Arbitrary polygons are, after all, not that easy to click in general.
the most obvious modern use case that comes to mind is maps or more generally geospatial visualization tools