Yahoo! Maps for ActionScript 3
February 11th, 2008 by ryanstewart
Yahoo Maps released their Maps API for AS3 today which means you can start taking advantage of Yahoo! Maps inside of your Flex 3 applications. Jesse built a cool little application and according to him it’s much, much faster than the Flex 1.5/AS2 version that they had previously. I’m stoked about the upgrade. Ted has a roundup of the features. I’ve fallen in love with the terrain mode at Google Maps so I really, really hope that Yahoo can incorporate something like that. Then I’ll be able to incorporate this into all of my GPS applications instead of using Google maps and going through the mx:HTML tag in AIR.
[tags]Yahoo Maps, Flex, AS3[/tags]
Posted in Flex, Rich Internet Applications
February 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Hi Ryan.
Why would you use the yahoo maps over the google maps API?
Cheers.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hey Thomas, for Flex applications the Yahoo Maps API is going to be awesome. For AIR apps since you can do both HTML and Flex I’ve been using the Google Maps API and it seems more full featured right now. I also wanted practice with the security sandbox. Using the Flex API will be much easier for you in AIR and Flex.
=Ryan
February 11th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
This is cool !
Although, I’ll still be using google maps, while I’m comparing mapping platforms .. the platform that has more data wins .. google is a clear winner in that respect … India (1/6th of the world lives here) on yahoo is just a bunch of outlines, while google has details to the street level.
While using Google Maps in Flex applications, modestmaps is extremely helpful.
February 11th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
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