[Solved] World maps. Imagemap or screen with imagebuttons?

[thomas_oak]

At the moment I have a map of a village with several buildings showing as hotspots on an imagemap. Fairly straightforward.
I would like to have building become hoverable when certain story stages are met. As a novice at programming, I believe showif can only be used in screens. So should I be using imagebuttons for the buildings so as to hide them unless a variable if true? I assume this to be a common thing in games but has me confused.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

[XxrenxX]

Something like this? If errors someone please comment, not sure if old or newer code since something I put in my project forever ago.

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#In Screen
imagemap:
    hotspot (468,248,114,114) clicked Jump("church") #name of label
    if pub_unlock:
            hotspot  (400,100,250,114) clicked Jump("pub")

init python:
     pub_unlock = False

#In Script before line of unlock
label map:
     $ pub_unlock = True

[thomas_oak]

Thank you XxrenxX. That was very helpful. I thought it would be something obvious.