Wow, so I have had a ticket sitting in my queue for some time now that I didn’t think would be easy. What we had to do was to Zoom in the user but leave the location of the Zoom in the same place it was on the map. After much thinking (about [...]
Author Archive
7 Aug
Clear out the Clutter (Decluttering POIs)
Ok, so this post probably won’t be long because this is so super simple! So first the atta boy to MapQuest for making this so simple. Now lets look at what it takes. myMap.getDeclutterMode().setDeclutterMode(2);
9 Mar
More Java Topology Suite.
So one of my colleagues whom is heavily involved in our current mapping project has been working with our polygons and trying to come up with some different solutions to make things faster, more scalable and workable. I networked with several people to try to find some fast easy workarounds and thanks to a couple [...]
12 Jan
Adding and Removing the same POIs
Adding and removing the same POIs over and over again doesn’t perform as I expected. To get rid of all the POIs you need to use the removeAllPois() function.
8 Jan
Extending the TileMap & some components
Quick overview of what you can do by extending some of the MapQuest Components.
16 Nov
Welcome to Cali
Well, I made it to Cali this weekend. I am hanging out at a starbucks right now just trying to get everything together. should be checking out Max tonight sometime. If you are at MAX come look around the MapQuest booth, i will probably be torchering the MapQuest guys. Hope you have a great week. [...]
5 Sep
Learning how to draw.
Wow, this post is making me feel like i am back in kindergarten. Let’s learn how to draw, first take your pencil and a piece of paper an… well i tried that, now it’s hard to read the other stuff on the monitor! Ok, well so I have taught myself how to draw a line [...]
28 Aug
How To Give the User A Choice of POI’s
Ok, so I have some code that I would love to share with you fellow AS3 developers. I have been playing over that last few days with some of the new features in the 5.3 version of MQAPI for AS3 and I made a custom mxml component. This is a very simple component, and will allow the users [...]
21 Aug
Back to Mapping, YAY!
Way to go MapQuest, your new API is much faster while running with Flex 3
16 May
6 month revist
OK, well i want to spend a little time talking about the project I just finished with making MapQuest Flash Maps in flex.
Project Refresher:
This project was to bring in demographics data and other informational data per zip code from internal systems, and using those choice zip codes to display zip code polygons on the map, somewhere [...]
