I thought of this about a year ago, while implementing a dot density map in wiscMapper, but never needed to use it until recently. You see, as I noted recently here, to create a dot density map in Flash, it is typical to create random points within the bounding coordinates of the polygonal feature [...]
posts tagged 'flash'
Jan 03 2008
shapefiles / projections in Flash / AS3
Below is linked a little teaser from my recent experimentation with loading shapefiles.
indiemaps.com/shapefile
In the above, the work of loading the shapefiles is mostly done by the Vanrijkom classes I spoke of earlier. When I wrote before, I was more interested in loading shapefiles with PHP, and using Flash Remoting to pass in the shapefile [...]
Dec 25 2007
loading shapefiles: actionscript3 or php?
I’ve recently become interested in loading shapefiles into Flash applications. Doing so opens up many possibilities.
Cartograms
Projections
Flash-based GIS
Perhaps best of all, it may mean that, for simple mapping tasks, I could do without ArcGIS altogether. I could load a shapefile into my Flash application, project it into one of dozens of projections, zoom into [...]