I did try their SDK, very well featured and plenty of support. I agree they have an excellent product.
The only downside is the maps are only limited to very developed countries, for third/second world, the maps are only available at very high zoom and are at least five years old. This has a problem since all businesses are looking towards developing nations for new projects and the landscape there is changing so fast, you will get lost if they are few years old. Few cities that have changed in as many years: Shanghai Dubai Singapore New Delhi Mumbai Ahmedabad (India) The only real way is a cross over app with Iframes. Google ditching MAP API in my view was the biggest setback for flex, in many ways even bigger then Apple dumping Flash. Regards, Raman S. -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski [mailto:nicho...@spoon.as] Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 3:34 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Google Maps I use ESRI's maps in my applications with great success. I even use them in my mobile apps. I highly recommend them. The POI is not nearly as populated as Google's, but they are leaps and bounds ahead of everybody else. -Nick On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Raman Sangra <rsan...@healthpi.com.au>wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been developing on Flex for quite some time. Looking at the > work you guys have been busy doing, I feel Flex may still find way out > to be best UI development SDK. One big question in my mind is what > happens to MAPS, Google as we know holds the best and most updated > data of world wide maps, and POI information. > > They are going to disable the Maps Flash API by Sep. 2014. This is a > real downplay for business applications. However if we see flex as > simply a game/animation development SDK, it would be ok. But there are > serious business apps that were built for business users. These > business users are all shifting to mobile devices ipads and other tablets. > > I guess mobile devices may get targeted via AIR apps, but still the > integration of some free qualified maps API either Google, ESRI or > other provider would really be a big help. > > My thoughts, I would appreciate some other opinions and perspectives. > > Regards, > Raman S. > >
