Hi all, We currently have a site which uses the google maps flash api to plot coloured postcodes as a choropleth graph. This works great, and is currently using the encoded polyline format which we retrieve from our database based on what postcodes we have data for.
Our issue now is that we want to be able to show some more data on these sorts of maps/graphs, and a really great way to do this would be able to give the postcode polygons height relative to the value of the data being shown for that location. This has proved very difficult. I see it can be done in Google Earth. I can also create a polygon with altitude and sides in Google Earth and take the kml of that object and try to use it in a flash map via Pamela Fox's KML parsing util, but this strips all altitude data from it and ends up with the same result had we just used our normal Polygon.fromEncoded() call. I have found no examples of how to do this from within the flash API, or a recommended method. Should we be pulling the encoded polyline data, creating our polygon, then extruding it somehow in actionscript before putting it on the map? Is there some hidden feature of the Polygon class which gives this ability (It has to be said that defining options via untyped Object hashes is a nasty way of interacting with classes in Flash)? It becomes really frustrating to have some feature you want to use in the maps and to keep finding that, yes, that's easy in the HTML version, but next to impossible in the Flash API. I hope someone can shed light on this. Simon -- 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.
