Ah, great to hear you used KMLParser. Would you be interested in joining the project and submitting a patch for MultiGeometry support? That was something that I just didn't have time to put in at the time, and wasn't sure of the usage.
- pamela On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:54 AM, abr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi pamela! > > Yes, I have seen that great example. It helped me to test my > implementation of countries selection with some effects such as fading > when selection is gone. > But there is more info in our KML-s than just borders, namely id for > linking with other database objects in system, so those shapes are of > no help for me in this task. > > But I was able to add partial MultiGeometries support to > GoogleMapsAPIUtilityLibrary. Next to create complex polygons from > MultiGeometry I had to write PolylineEncoder as there is no way to > create such polygons just with array of points. Then the task was as > simple as calling Polygon.fromEncoded(). And it works actually! By the > end of this project, I believe there will be more complete support for > MultiGeometries (there is not only countries we are dealing with now, > you know). > > Very helpful for me was KMLParser example. In fact most of the > debugging was done by using it with my MultiGeometries implementation. > > On Sep 22, 9:39 am, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hi abr-- >> >> Can you use the data used in the example in this article, which >> creates polys out of country border >> data?http://gvlt.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/tutorial-thematic-mapping-with-t... >> >> - pamela >> >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:45 PM, abr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I managed to find boundaries in KML-format. Actually it is a >> > requirement now for my application to use KML-files loaded from >> > server. Only if it were so easy... Only if all countries were just >> > polygons... But Russia is not, and USA and Denmark and many others too >> > - they consist of multiple polygons (MultiGeometry in KML). Only KML- >> > parser I managed to find (Kml22 in GoogleMapsAPIUtilityLibrary.swc: >> >http://gmaps-utility-library-flash.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/inde... >> > ) does not understand tag <MultiGeometry> (and any of its children >> > consequently). >> >> > It seems, I am into a bad luck of writing some hardcoded parser just >> > for my countries (fortunately they consist only of polygons and >> > nothing else)... >> >> > On 17 сент, 15:02, abr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Well, I agree that geocoding can help me determine the country name. >> >> But I won't be able to highlight that country without shapes. >> >> >> On Sep 17, 2:34 pm, Javier de la Torre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> > Have you try geocoding your mouse position? >> >> > It should give you the country information. >> >> >> > Or you want to know dynamically on the client? >> >> >> > Javier. >> >> >> > On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:30 PM, abr wrote: >> >> >> > > Hello everyone! >> >> >> > > In my Flex app I want to be able to determine in which country mouse >> >> > > event occured. Also, I need to be able to highlight some countries >> >> > > (selected by user). As I believe, I have to find some sort of shapes >> >> > > for each country (and also subdivisions for some countries). The >> >> > > problem is - shapes must match those on Google Maps. As I have seen, >> >> > > Google Maps includes political boundaries for countries. Is there some >> >> > > way to get those (in KML or any other reasonable format, which can be >> >> > > displayed as or converted to flash)? >> >> >> > > Maybe you have any suggestions as to where can I find country >> >> > > shapes?- Hide quoted text - >> >> >> > - Show quoted text -- Скрыть цитируемый текст - >> >> >> - Показать цитируемый текст -- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
