Hey folks, I just wanted to share a link to the pilot of a site I just finished using Google Maps Flex. It's a pilot site that personalizes destination search by letting users visualize where they can reach by sustainable transit (walking, biking, public transit) and searching a variety of Philadelphia data sources and other APIs. We're looking for feedback so any thoughts y'all have would be greatly appreciated.
http://commonspace.us I had asked some questions in this forum about animating Overlays -- you can see the feature I was talking about if you move the slider that controls how long the user wants to travel for. The overlay appears to grow and shrink, showing the transitspace increase as time increases. Unfortunately, the solution ended up being complicated because overlays get cached as bitmaps -- and if you use the custom overlay option, your bitmap will disappear if the user zooms in because of Flash's bitmap maximum. So it was necessary to replicate the logic that must be in the core Overlay class that clips the bitmap to the visible viewport. Google team -- if you are listening, it would be great if you supported custom overlays that weren't cached as bitmaps, so we could continue to access the components for animations and the like. Also, I'm excited that development is starting back up on the Google Maps Flex API. Thanks! --j -- Josh Marcus Software Engineer Azavea (formerly Avencia) | T: 215.701.7505 | F: 215.925.2663 www.azavea.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en.
