ActionScript 3 Maps API: Y3K Compliant

Posted in "Flash, Flex, General" at 5:59 am on February 11, 2008 by Allen Rabinovich | 11 comments

Yahoo! AS3 Maps

Good news, everyone! Although we are still not quite ready to unveil the “what-if machine” or teach the toaster to feel love (or stop putting Futurama references everywhere), today we are bringing you something just as cool and way more relevant. That’s right, folks: it’s the ActionScript 3 Maps API. Eagerly awaited and now available for immediate download on Yahoo! Flash Developer Center, the Maps API is an incredibly powerful map engine with multiple embeddable tools that make it truly universal. From local searches to custom markers, the API covers it all, and does that in a native AS3 component that’s less than 30 kilobytes in size (that’s smaller than about 4 map tiles.) You can use it in the Flex Builder, or with the standalone mxmlc compiler (which is nice and free) — a Flash version will follow shortly.

So don’t spend another minute without it: head on over to the Flash Developer Center and grab a copy (though make sure to read the license agreement before you do). We’ve prepared some screencasts, detailed documentation and a bunch of great examples to get you started. A whole world of rich map-enabled applications is waiting: and though it may not be the 31st century just yet, with Yahoo!’s AS3 Maps, you’ll definitely be ahead of your time.

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  1. [...] yeah! Like the Yahoo! Flash Blog says that ’s a good news for eveyone! The ActionScript 3 Maps API is now available for [...]

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  2. [...] Maps component in an Actionscript 3 application. I am glad to say that the Maps communication kit is no longer needed. Head on over to the Yahoo Flash Developer center and download the real Yahoo AS3 Maps [...]

    Pingback by Finally, Yahoo releases Maps API in Actionscript 3 — February 11, 2008 #

  3. Congrats you guys, thanks a lot! This is awesome!

    Comment by enefekt — February 11, 2008 #

  4. [...] released an AS3 version of their Map API. I got to play with it over the weekend. The pro’s are its [...]

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  5. [...] Yahoo’s blog – link [...]

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  6. [...] official release of the ActionScript 3 API for Yahoo! Maps appeared on the Yahoo! Developer Network yesterday to much fanfare. Believe me, I’m excited as you [...]

    Pingback by How to use the Yahoo! AS3 Maps API in Flash CS3 - Zeus Labs — February 12, 2008 #

  7. This looks like a really cool component! I followed the screencast to get started and had problems getting it to load the map. I believe the problem had to do with the application key…is there a way to test my application locally for development or will it only work through the url I provided for the key?

    Comment by Tyson Anderson — February 16, 2008 #

  8. [...] a month has passed since we launched the ActionScript 3 Maps API and since then we’ve received a ton of great feedback on the component, along with some [...]

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  9. This is great–but what I can’t figure out is how to use the .swc in a .fla. I’ve got the .swc working when I import it into FlexBuilder–but because my project has a lot of media in the .fla, I want to actually use Flash to publish the .swf (that is, test-movie). I have placed the YahooMaps.swc in the correct location but it never appears in Flash’s component panel. Please advise.

    Comment by Phillip Kerman — March 14, 2008 #

  10. found how:
    http://www.zeuslabs.us/2008/02/12/yahoo-actionscript-3-maps-api-in-flash-cs3/

    Comment by Phillip Kerman — March 14, 2008 #

  11. Thanks for this cool component. It really makes things simple.

    Comment by John — February 20, 2010 #

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