[intergalplan]

> At this point I'm thinking it might be less bandwidth, complexity, and easier to maintain to just present a web page as a giant imagemap. SVG, so it scales.

SVG is XML, so you can do exactly that if you want to. Hook React up to it and go nuts. You can have the browser build a DOM tree out of it for you and use many of the same APIs you would on HTML, if you don't want to use React. Seriously, this is a thing you can actually do.