Claus: Not much actually, I have the freely available geocodes for all hte major cities. All I need to do once plot their locations is essentially draw a line between them. Animate, do a little math and done.
After posting I did a little research and found this gem: http://www.allthegoodness.com/projects/map/index.php And this interesting talk: http://clients.stamen.com/talks/ffnyc/ So I should be all good---but any suggestions and ideas are totally welcome. I'll update you guys with anything cool I generate allong the way. Paul Neave: This app needs to be offline/online so the yahoo api's aren't an option, unfortunately. Cheers, Brian http://westcoastlogic.com On 10/20/06, Paul Neave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not use the APIs that are already provided by Yahoo? > http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ > > it's not open source but it'll save you a lot of time. > Then only open source mapping option at the moment is > http://www.openlayers.org/ but it's AJAX not Flash. > > HTH, > Paul. > > On 20/10/06, Brian LeRoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm building an app that I have hopes can be offline that needs to > > have a world map capable of displaying a pushpin like yahoo/google > > maps according to geodata. I'd love it if there is some existing work > > out there that I could leverage for this purpose... open source or > > commercial. > > > > If not, I may have to turf the offline aspect and rely on yahoo maps. > > Or get my hands dirty and figure out how to overlay a long/lat grid on > > a 2D map (which might be fun actually). > > > > Thoughts? Impressions? Words of wisdom? Scathing criticism? > > > > All responses welcome. > > > > Cheers, > > Brian > > http://westcoastlogic.com > > > > ps. One thing, regarding that last thread, OSFlash is great place full > > of passionate and talented developers. Because we love our craft so > > much its easy to fall into a passionate "debate" that seems > > superficial. Its not a big deal.. this place rawks regardless. *High > > five. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
