I think it would help more if you show us what you see when you click the eyeglass icon. You should see the popup topic in the same way as any other topic because there is really no such thing as a popup topic, they are topics like any other but when called they are configured to appear in a popup window.
I'm also not following how creating an image map has anything to do with the eyeglass icon.
Are you thinking of text popups?
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