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Zooming like a big boy

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.  [...]

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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 [...]

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Good programming practice with mapquest fuctions & Freebies (Merry Christmas)

So when i started writing the mapquest functions i have, i wrote the same ones over and over again until i got familiar.  I the broke out my own file and just called it mapQuest something or other and put all my mapquest functions in it.  Once i did that I made it where you [...]

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Putting Polygons on the screen Part 1

This is problem the craziest thing that I have done so far.  Not that it is hard, but what we want to do requires lots of data and setting it up correctly.  So there are some things are you are going to need to do.  First lets look at the basics.
The first thing that we [...]

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Multiple POI Problem

When batchGeoCoding  points you can only do 100 at a time or it will throw an error.  This is something that took them a day to dig up for me.  Here is the way that you can get around the issue.
<code>
if(arrItemsToBatchGeoCode.length <= 100)
{
doGeoCodeZips(arrItemsToBatchGeoCode);//call the flagged points
}
else
{
var arrZipCodeTemp:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();
var arrZipCodeTempCollection:Array = new Array();
//we want [...]

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