What level of interaction are you looking for?
If you just want everyone to be able to see the map and point at it, Roll20's interactive virtual tabletop would suit you.
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I've created an interactive kingmaker hex map for my game, but alas it's not designed to display a shared view from multiple independent devices - it's something we have on a tablet in the middle of the table, and people reach over and reveal hexes or drag icons onto the map as they discover things or hear rumours about them.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16299287/Kingmaker/Map/map.html
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16299287/Kingmaker/Map.zip
At the very least, it includes images of the maps from the first two modules with the fixed encounters and symbols removed, so that might be useful to you.
It has an import/export map feature which saves the current state of the map to plain text, but it would be pretty cumbersome to make a change, export the result and email the text to your group saying "import this".
I would recommend MapTool from rptools.net
There is a bit of a learning curve, but you can set up fog of war and vision to really allow the incremental exploration of the area. Maptool can be pretty intimidating, but it's really powerful, cross platform, and free. However, because it is so customizable, you could have two different setups fairly easily - one for the overland exploration, and one for your tactical battlemat.
You will still need to provide an image of the map. I am working on an area map tying all four of the provided overland maps together using Hexographer (hexographer.com).
So far, I'm pretty happy with it - it allowed me to fix the fact that the maps in the books aren't oriented north, and it will allow full exploration without the problem of "hey - you just went off the edge." All in all, I was able to recreate the maps from the books as a continuous image in just a few hours of work.
I recommend Roll20.net over MapTool. I was a long-time advocate of MapTool, but Roll20 now offers a better user experience. There are a handful of super-user abilities in MapTool that are still "better", but that list gets shorter and shorter all the time. I proudly maintain a paid account on the site, but you can accomplish your goal easily with a free account (and they don't expire).
Crazed Crusader, what you'll need is a digital copy of the Kingmaker Maps, which I think you can buy from the Paizo store. You can use Acrobat to pull the images out of the PDF, and upload them into Roll20. From there you can either turn off the grid altogether and just rely on the printed hexes, or go about resizing the map to work with Roll20's hex grid.
You will have the ability to cover parts of the map that the players haven't explored, drop player tokens on the map, labels ("hidden" labels are very useful for remembering what's in that next hex) etc, etc.
Crazed Crusader, what you'll need is a digital copy of the Kingmaker Maps, which I think you can buy from the Paizo store. You can use Acrobat to pull the images out of the PDF, and upload them into Roll20.
One thing I've discovered (on Windows 7, at least) is that if you have the PDFs of the AP, you can click on a map image and control-c copy the image and paste it into a paint/drawing program. Because of the way Paizo have built the PDF, you get the underlying image of the map without the overlayed text and icons, making it ideal for making a player copy of the map. That's how I got my images for my interactive map.
It works for the tactical maps too, when you want to import them into Roll20 or 3D Virtual Tabletop or whatever.