I would like to displays schedules, maps and other informations on displays in a building for visitors. These displays would provide at most mouse input but no keyboard.
Ten years ago this was the domain of Macromedia Director but today I believe that browsers and content management systems provide a better architecture. However, I could not find a single open source system for this purpose, not even some CSS styles. I would be grateful for ideas how to implement public information systems that are low on interactivity.
SVG would be the best bet. It will let you draw maps of your buildings and interactively zoom in/out and pan around, plus let you click on items of interest to bring up details.
What are your constraints? will this be in a touchscreen enclosure running IE or Firefox in Kiosk mode? (e.g. like a visual directory in a building lobby?)
See the Adobe building in San Jose for example.
Just build a Web site displaying information clearly. You could apply all the mobile best practices to the site. Since when you scale it, to a large screen, you have the same sort of legibility problems.
Another trick is to alter the CSS overflow property to prevent a scroll bar showing up.
I use http://webconverger.com for displaying signs using Web applications.
