Best methods for this project

Hi
I have this to create for a client.
http://www.qwerty-design.co.uk/bensons/
If you click on the London area (bottom right if you're not from the UK) and click the map will zoom to reveal two markers. When these are rollover they reveal store names.
Can I ask:
1. I have 130 stores to show all over the country, what would be the best way of feeding the text into flash? would it be to use XML or just an external text file for each store?
2. I am currently using a invisible button to create the click for the zoom, is this the way you guys would do this?
Can you recommend any other tips for creating this.
Thanks
Ricky55

Not that you asked for this advice, but that is what you get when you post for free help! Please take it in the sense of friendly critique that I mean it.
As the pins fade in I can see the "steel" through the red ball at top. Because you are using and alpha fade the red ball's alpha is partial and the artwork shows through. Not a biggie, but to me it looks unprofessional and clunky.
And I agree that XML will be the way to go if it is something that needs to be updated even a few times.

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MUYconfundido wrote:
I am in the process of embedding 3 mp3's into a PDF to submit as a portfolio. The PDF also has text, and two scores included, and with the 3 embedded mp3's it can't be more than 10mb.
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So if you know the length of your tracks you can calculate what bitrate you need to keep it within 10 MB total.
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I bounced out the three projects into wav's. Now I am using Switch for Mac to compress them down to smaller Mp3's.
That is silly, you could have done that in Logic, which has one of the best MP3 encoders built in. And how good encoders are will especially come out at bitrates around or below 128, which you might be looking at.
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