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 [...]
Archive for the ‘flash mapping’ Category
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 [...]
26 Mar
Less expensive Polygons
As i grow to love this software more and more, i find different things that can take away from the user experience. I have found that putting polygons on the screen(mostly zip code polygons) is expensive if you use oh about 250 or more. I am working on ways around this and we are figuring [...]
21 Dec
Polygons and labels
So there is more to report when it comes to throwing Poly’s on the screen. Well, it looks like there is not a great way to do labels for your poly’s which stinks, but there are work arounds i am sure. I posted something on this in the forums on MapQuest site with a response [...]
20 Dec
Back to school on Polygons and map placement, (HI OverlayCollection)
Ok, so i am back to working on the UI for the map so my customers can really be effective with the way it sits. Until today whenever i put a polygon on the screen i just wrote it straight to the map, so something like
myMap.addOverlay(myOverlay);
This is good and all, but here is the problem. [...]
21 Sep
Adding Multiple POI’s
OK, so the next thing that I need to do is add a bunch of people to the map that are around the person I added before. BTW these people will have their own custom graphic above their spot to mark their POI.
<code>
//import stuff
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
import com.mapquest.tilemap.*;
import com.mapquest.tilemap.pois.Poi;
import com.mapquest.tilemap.controls.*;
import com.mapquest.*;
//global var’s
[Embed(source='\\15_15_i.gif')]
public var NyIcon:Class;
//first this [...]
21 Sep
Adding a Poi.
So, Now I am going to add Point Of Interest, but I am going to go ahead and put in the POI as the office of an individual that is associated with our company. Oh an good news, this is pretty much the code the provide, i am just passing inthe info that i [...]
21 Sep
First MapQuest Map!
So, about a month ago I started working with the MapQuest API trying to make it work with what we want to do at the office. Well, the first application was a copy paste and it went well, almost surprisingly too well. I worked with some out there that would not work from [...]
