Hi Pamela, Regarding this. I am also representing countries and states for doing thematic mapping. I had to set up a server for that. I was wondering if it is worth moving that to appengine or wait for Google to release a Maps Data API. I hope this new API will be accompanied with classes on the Flash API to load directly layers of data like this.
But regarding performance, loading all countries polygons does not work well... too much for the client and it becomes unresponsive. It could be great to be able to load tiles for things like that, but then there is little you can do with them on the client. Ideally I would like to be able to load a simplified polygon for a certain country, so that I can control its apparence and so on, or choose to do like with Google Charts, define the styling for a tile layer and google answering tiles with my desired style. But probably I am asking for too much. Meanwhile CloudFront is working fine for me for distributing tiles up to a certain zoom level. Javier de la Torre www.vizzuality.com On Apr 28, 2009, at 2:41 PM, pamela fox wrote: > > Ah, I understand. We do have that data internally, but we haven't yet > exposed it via an API. There's a feature request for that here: > http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=109 > > The country border example was this one: > http://gvlt.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/tutorial-thematic-mapping-with-the-google-maps-flash-api/ > > There's also a lot of links to border resources here: > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/resources-gisgeographical-data > > - pamela > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:24 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Thanks, but I meant country border(Sorry, but I'm not English native >> speaker). >> >> I saw such tuttorial, but I thought that google maps have such data, >> because of the fact, that map already have country border. >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
