She was released the beta 0.6 component UMAP for Flash CS3 (Actionscript 3.0) - is also present in the package version for Flex. Among the news we see the adoption of OpenStreetMap as the default provider. Also added was an advanced manager Marker and a series of various optimizations.
Mapstraction is a JavaScript library that acts as an intermediate layer to use the maps of the most popular systems available today. The idea is to provide a wrapper, an interface that can unify the code whatever, then the type of rendering engine maps that you want to use.
Are available on site demos and documentation . The library is downloadable for free. Supported in this release are the most famous engines 9: OpenStreetMap, Yahoo , Google , Microsoft , Map24, MultiMap, MapQuest, FreeEarth and OpenLayers.
Supports the creation of Point, Line and Polygon. You can insert your Image gallery overlay. Interesting support for geocoding of street addresses and directions of the brand! Net compatibility with feeds GeoRSS and KML .
From the examples of the code once you understand how useful a tool of this type. Each "Interface" ( Google , Microsoft , Yahoo , etc ...) it has its own set of APIs. Through Mapstraction , however, we can write a single block of code and let the end user the choice of provider to use. For example, when you initialize the library, the following line of code:
1 2 | / / Initialise the map with your choice of API new Mapstraction ( 'mapstraction' , 'google' ) ; var = new mapstraction Mapstraction ('mapstraction', 'google'); |
Determines the engine Google ! It is without saying that, I replaced the string 'google', immediately change the rendering engine of the maps!
1 2 | / / Initialise the map with your choice of API new Mapstraction ( 'mapstraction' , 'microsoft' ) ; var = new mapstraction Mapstraction ('mapstraction', 'microsoft'); |
Although the library is not really complete, can be integrated into a single framework all the features "spread" of the individual libraries. The rendering engine Microsoft, for example, allows display "as the crow flies." OpenStreetMap and Google maps have excellent management of the road, including the Italian ones. In short, for those who must face the development of an application with the use of maps and can not - just - to decide which technology to use for development, Mapstraction allows - in fact - to cut oneself, to resolve the dilemma by introducing, in fact, third actor, and in this way, give us the ability to change the rendering engine at any time. So good idea to follow and to use!
Google has APIs - Javascript - to put its maps in any web site . vied how to accomplish the same thing with Flash!
We start from a free component, UMAP (Universal ActionScript 3.0 Mapping API - Integrated with Google Maps), developed by AFComponents , a vertically organized companies of components for Flash / Flex really interesting and affordable. On the site, where you need to register to take advantage of free downloads, there are also versions of UMAP for ActionScript 2.0: MAP G Ver.2.6.1 . In this case we will analyze the version 0.4 Beta UMAP for ActionScript 3.0 (inside the package there is also a Flex component). That we're going to see is - obviously - a beta version and lacks, therefore, some features in version for Actionscript 2.0 ( G Ver.2.6.1 MAP ). However, watchman at the future, it seems more interesting to focus attention on this release, I tried both and, despite the release of more complete for Actionscript 2.0, Actionscript 3.0 beta version is considerably more powerful.
Reinvigorate the Web service dedicated to statistics, has added a new report on the hourly distribution of traffic on the tab 'Traffic'. This new feature can add more than 700 hours of traffic, giving an interesting insight TREND time of visits and page views, inter-quartile range (IQR) range.
Really interesting is the second new concerns that the old hostname / IP address that is now replaced with a report Geolocate the tab 'Visitor Detail', not bad at all (uses Google Map).
In addition, this new view can display the names of visitors who have a resolvable address, all integrated with the characteristic of the name tags Reinvigorate , so as to show, in practice, some visitors by name!
Web 2.0 also means software distributed through APIs (application programming interface). The ability to use features and remote functionality is extremely useful elsewhere in reality as the Internet. In addition to Yahoo, with its style Toolkit 2.0, Google - in the context of geo-referencing - offers its free tools, in this case for the handling and management of maps.
Google Maps API allows you to insert Google Maps into their web pages using JavaScript.
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