What is image mapping?

[Honan]

I see places advertising image mapping software for web authors
Wtf is it?
Please excuse my ignorance

 

[Dale Hubbard]

I'm not a web programmer, but I think it's just an image in which you can map different regions that when clicked, go to different URLs.

 

[Rockefeller]

http://www.echoecho.com/htmllinks07.htm

 

[Theo]

What aZooZa said.

Alternatively, it's a collage of old pics of Grandma prior to her untimely sale.

 

[Honan]

cheers