Comments on: AS3 Maps: Flick-able and Spinnable

By: asinomasimple

asinomasimple — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:18:04 +0000

Any updates on that crossdomain file for the BitmapData?

By: Stefan Richter

Stefan Richter — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:42:37 +0000

I’m using the Yahoo maps in a Flex project and it’s working very well. I do however see security sandbox errors when trying to grab a bitmapdata snapshot. Is this something that Yahoo could address? I think all it may take is the appropriate crossdomain file.

Regards,

Stefan

By: c.moore

c.moore — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:17:26 +0000

any source for this available?

looks awsome

By: Dan Wilday

Dan Wilday — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:32:58 +0000

The code snippet in my last post got truncated due to LessThan and GreaterThan symbols. Hopefully this one will go through better.

if(zoomLevel < _zoomRange.minimum) _map.zoomLevel = _zoomRange.minimum;
if(zoomLevel > _zoomRange.maximum) _map.zoomLevel = _zoomRange.maximum;

By: Dan Wilday

Dan Wilday — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:23:13 +0000

I was able to hack out an answer to my own zooming problem… but I’ve yet to crack the panning dilemma.

For anyone interested here’s what I did:

1 – created my own _zoomRange Object with minimum a maximum properties

2 – added YahooMapEvent.MAP_ZOOM EventListener to the the map.

3 – on zoom I checked that the range was inside my own range like so:

var zoomLevel:int = e.currentTarget.zoomLevel;
if(zoomLevel _zoomRange.maximum) _map.zoomLevel = _zoomRange.maximum;

I’m still working on the panning problem.
If there’s any official answer on this (or an elegant hack) I’d love to hear it.

Dan Wilday
Peel Interactive Media

By: Dan Wilday

Dan Wilday — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:23:13 +0000

I was able to hack out an answer to my own zooming problem… but I’ve yet to crack the panning dilemma.

For anyone interested here’s what I did:

1 – created my own _zoomRange Object with minimum a maximum properties

2 – added YahooMapEvent.MAP_ZOOM EventListener to the the map.

3 – on zoom I checked that the range was inside my own range like so:

var zoomLevel:int = e.currentTarget.zoomLevel;
if(zoomLevel _zoomRange.maximum) _map.zoomLevel = _zoomRange.maximum;

I’m still working on the panning problem.
If there’s any official answer on this (or an elegant hack) I’d love to hear it.

Dan Wilday
Peel Interactive Media

By: Dan Wilday

Dan Wilday — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:38:42 +0000

I’m having trouble finding a help page or help forum for this API so I’ll just post it here in hopes that I’ll either get the answer I need or get redirected to somewhere more useful.

I’m trying to use the YahooMap.setMapBounds as well as YahooMap.setZoomRange to limit the users movements on the map to the portion relevant to the site. Thus far I cannot get either of these to work. Are these methods still in development or is there something I could be doing incorrectly?

Dan Wilday
Peel Interactive Media

By: intense creativity » Blog Archive » Yahoo Maps API in pure AS3!

intense creativity » Blog Archive » Yahoo Maps API in pure AS3! — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:22:48 +0000

[...] Following this link you will find a blog entry on a little app the guys inside of Yahoo built. Somebody should tell them about the ’smoothing’ property of Bitmap object in AS3, it would make the rotated maps look much better! [...]

By: Yahoo! Cool thing of the Day » Blog Archive » Can’t spell EXAMPLES without MAPS

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:50:30 +0000

[...] people, hopefully. You can get a bird’s eye view of the news, for instance, or toss your map around at the flick of a mouse (shout-out to my friend Jon!). And of course, in case you are looking to get into your own hacking, [...]

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:01:52 +0000

Matt, check out my blog post, How to use the Yahoo! AS3 Maps API in Flash CS3 for some pretty easy steps to get Maps working in Flash. Josh Tynjala Yahoo! Flash Platform