Placing links to handouts on the "World Map"

In my game I like to include a lot of information that would be considered common knowledge I do this via handouts. I'd like to be able to directly link handouts to players by placing them on the map. So if for instance they have questions about a nearby town they can click on the little dot which indicates it. This would bring up the handout I'd prepared for this town which contains general knowledge about the town/information the players have already uncovered and that I've added after the fact. Oftentimes handouts that I've prepared go unnoticed unless I inform them of the new handouts. I feel that having this information available to my characters assists them in better roleplaying long-time denizens of my world and that making this information accessible in such a manner helps them in retrieving said information. I've seen another closed post from 2 years ago where they displayed workarounds to bring the information up more quickly for GMs but with no way for players to access the links. I was hoping this situation had improved or that new workarounds for players had arisen in that time. Any help would be appreciated.

One way you could do that is to make a token for location information linked to a character sheet for the info icon. Give the players control of it so that they can click on it and select a token action that is created on the character sheet for the info icon. Hopefully you are following me because the key to this is that you have the link to the handout in one of the bubbles of token. When the players click on the token action it takes the handout link from bar1 and sends it to chat where they can click on it. By keeping the variable info in the bubble of the icon you can link different handouts to different points on the map.  here is a quick mockup I did in my game. Feel free to enhance it with a roll template.

Character Sheets w/ macros to say/whisper info in Ability section. Then drop a "marker" icon and link it to the Character sheet.

For API users I got this handly little inspect-script written by the Aaron (who else? :D). It lets the players inspect the linked bio of any token on the map without having to find the right handout. I love it. Just make sure you put all the secret stuff inside the GM Notes. on('ready',function(){ "use strict"; on('chat:message',function(msg){ var content,token,character,bio,who; if('api' === msg.type && msg.content.match(/^!inspect/) ){ content = msg.content.split(/\s+/); token=getObj('graphic',content[1]); if(token){ character=getObj('character',token.get('represents')); if(character) { character.get('bio',function(bio){ if(bio && bio.length && 'null' !== bio){ who = getObj('player',msg.playerid).get('displayname'); sendChat('Inspect','/w "'+who+'" <div style="border:1px solid #999;border-radius:.5em;padding:.1em .5em; font-size: .6em;background-color:#eee; color:#333;">'+bio+'</div>'); } }); } } } }); }); Usage: !inspect @{target|token_id}

Ed S. After trying the solutions given here I have decided to go with yours. As complicated as it was at first it is definitely the most efficient solution. Is there a macro that I could use to load the handout directly? Or at least have the chat whispered to the player who clicked it only?

The whisper part is possible just change the token action macro by adding  /w "@{target|token_name}" at the front of it. The player will have to target their token because they would currently have the Info token selected at the time. 

So technically one player could click on that info token and whisper it to another player. Interesting way for two sneaky characters to whisper information about someplace to each other.