Part 1: Loading, projecting, and drawing geodata
I’m getting into more canvas and JavaScript for interactive mapping. Much of the Flash/ActionScript work I’ve written or come to rely upon is directly portable to JS/canvas. What’s missing is a sweet RIA framework and IDE for the kind of development Flash and Flex have made possible [...]
posts tagged 'projections'
Jun 15 2010
Interactive mapping with HTML5, JavaScript, and Canvas
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 [...]