Quick overview of what you can do by extending some of the MapQuest Components.
Archive for the ‘mapping’ Category
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
25 Apr
A new friend called JTS!
Well, we found something new today. This guy will actually do tons of work to clean up polygons. It is what PostGres GIS was modeled after and converted from and is a live project. Here is a link http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/discussion.htm . As it is a Java app and i have some java backend stuff to do [...]
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 [...]
7 Feb
Find Edges of Polygon
Ok so over the last couple of days we have come up with a solution to grab information to do some caching. One of the things that I am doing is figuring out where i need to move to grab the next set of data. Well i wrote a little something i will post as [...]
10 Dec
Trying to do some manipulation
Ok, so I am working on some caching so i can speed things up a little and here is the problem i am finding. In trying to get only the zip code i want to cache as a feature collection i need to make the feature collection. So this is a snippet of [...]
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 [...]
