Comments on: Google Maps Gets a Flash API http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/05/google-maps-gets-a-flash-api/ Just an average guy trying to drink above average beer. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Charlie Szymanski http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/05/google-maps-gets-a-flash-api/comment-page-1/#comment-5495 Charlie Szymanski Fri, 16 May 2008 01:27:59 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1423#comment-5495 Ryan, Just a note about AIR applications from Google: <blockquote> There are both technical and legal limitations on allowing the Flash API in standalone SWFs and AIR apps, due to our key checking and dynamic loading systems. Currently a standalone SWF that has the key information embedded in the AS will display, but with debug tiles. So you can use these in development but not in production. We would like to support both of these techniques in the future, but we'll need more time to work out the various issues. - pamela </blockquote> Disappointing to say the least, I was really hoping to put together an AIR application. Kind of dulls my excitement of having the maps API, hopefully they can work through these issues quickly. Ryan,

Just a note about AIR applications from Google:

There are both technical and legal limitations on allowing the Flash
API in standalone SWFs and AIR apps, due to our key checking and
dynamic loading systems.
Currently a standalone SWF that has the key information embedded in
the AS will display, but with debug tiles. So you can use these in
development but not in production.

We would like to support both of these techniques in the future, but
we’ll need more time to work out the various issues.

- pamela

Disappointing to say the least, I was really hoping to put together an AIR application. Kind of dulls my excitement of having the maps API, hopefully they can work through these issues quickly.

]]> By: Jamie McDaniel http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/05/google-maps-gets-a-flash-api/comment-page-1/#comment-5494 Jamie McDaniel Thu, 15 May 2008 11:12:27 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1423#comment-5494 This is great news! I had written a <a href="http://www.curiousfind.com/blog/3" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> detailing my having to use iframes and dynamically changing the z-index and all that trickery in order to use a Google map inside a Flex application with popups. Now this API solves all of that. I wonder if Google will be updating their <a href="http://www.searchmash.com/flash/" rel="nofollow">SearchMash</a> site? This is great news! I had written a blog post detailing my having to use iframes and dynamically changing the z-index and all that trickery in order to use a Google map inside a Flex application with popups. Now this API solves all of that. I wonder if Google will be updating their SearchMash site?

]]> By: Ed Finkler http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/05/google-maps-gets-a-flash-api/comment-page-1/#comment-5493 Ed Finkler Thu, 15 May 2008 01:33:58 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1423#comment-5493 The terms of service state that the Google Maps API cannot be used on anything but web sites. I had to drop a Gmaps app from a book chapter on AIR because of this. <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#tos_nonweb" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#tos_nonweb</a> The terms of service state that the Google Maps API cannot be used on anything but web sites. I had to drop a Gmaps app from a book chapter on AIR because of this.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#tos_nonweb

]]> By: Igor Costa http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/05/google-maps-gets-a-flash-api/comment-page-1/#comment-5492 Igor Costa Thu, 15 May 2008 00:18:08 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1423#comment-5492 Hi there Ryan I did a little update on the component, could you link again with the new one? Regards Igor Costa new link http://www.igorcosta.org/?p=141 Hi there Ryan

I did a little update on the component, could you link again with the new one?

Regards
Igor Costa

new link http://www.igorcosta.org/?p=141

]]> By: Josh Chernoff http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/05/google-maps-gets-a-flash-api/comment-page-1/#comment-5491 Josh Chernoff Wed, 14 May 2008 23:41:33 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1423#comment-5491 Ryan can you really tell me you call this a flash API? it's a flex api it's uses the flex swc file adn the flex display API. I know you can argue that the swf defines it as flash but if you can't use it in the flash IDE should you still call it a flash API? to be honest I feel left out and abandoned by the action script community because I use the flash IDE. Ryan can you really tell me you call this a flash API?
it’s a flex api it’s uses the flex swc file adn the flex display API. I know you can argue that the swf defines it as flash but if you can’t use it in the flash IDE should you still call it a flash API? to be honest I feel left out and abandoned by the action script community because I use the flash IDE.

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