This is awesome! Thank you so much. I'm using Google Maps and AppEngine ... and Blogger and Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Google is the place to be.
Jesse On Dec 27, 4:57 pm, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Jesse- > > Just wanted to let you know I've added HowSFVotes to our featured projects > blog:http://google-code-featured.blogspot.com/ > > It should show up on the front page of the Flash API docs soon. > > I noticed you're now using AppEngine for hosting -- you may want to > add it to the App Engine app gallery as well, if you haven't yet. > > - pamela > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Flexa, > > > Thanks. I get the polygons in SHP format. I have a compilation step > > that I wrote in Java. It uses GeoTools to parse the SHP files and > > serialize them to an XML format. I embed this XML file in the Flex app > > and then parse it and construct a bunch of Polygons. > > > The XML file for my district data is big, over 700K. I wanted the SWF > > download to be smaller so I implemented encoding the Polygons before > > serializing them to XML. This made the XML data much smaller (~150K). > > But the resulting SWF was only about 95K smaller. I guess that Flex > > GZIPs embedded text files, which is smart. > > > Jesse > > > On Dec 12, 12:47 am, Flexa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Jesse, > > >> your map is really amazing. How did you create the restricts border/ > >> overlay? Is that a handmade Polyline ? > > >> Thanks a lot. > >> - Flexa > > >> On Dec 12, 2:47 am, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > I just wanted to share with everybody that today I released a > >> > completely revamped version of my site, HowSFVotes.com. The old > >> > version was built (in 2004) on Flash and all custom GIS code. This new > >> > version is built on top of Google's Maps API for Flex. > > >> >http://www.howsfvotes.com/#08G:8;;P;AB > > >> > The Flex API made it incredibly easy for me to develop the site. I > >> > accomplished much more in the past two weeks than I did in two months > >> > in 2004. I used the following parts of the API: polygon and marker > >> > overlay, OverlayBase, Local Search (not actually part of the API), > >> > encoded polygons, custom panes, zoom and move events, and more. > > >> > If anyone in this group has questions about how I implemented specific > >> > features of HowSFVotes, feel free to post them here or on my site > >> > blog,http://blog.howsfvotes.com. > > >> > Thanks Google and the Maps API community! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
