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mattsheehan asked a question in Modest Maps on May 31, 2009 15:37:

Flash Lite

I wondered if anybody had successfully used Modest Maps to build Flash Lite apps?
Code examples would be great.
Cheers
--Matt

mattsheehan replied on February 06, 2009 20:04 to the question "PNG or SWF Overlay" in Modest Maps:

Mike,

I'm excited. I'd love to be able to display ski resort trails and lifts on the modest map app I am building. Making it interactive (eg. mouse over a trail and a tooltip or equivalent appears naming the trail, its length etc) would be a great addition. Now knowing its possible, I'd really welcome some pointers on how best to do it.

Many thanks

ps. those trail maps are cool

mattsheehan replied on February 05, 2009 21:17 to the question "PNG or SWF Overlay" in Modest Maps:

Mike,

The modest map I am building is at:

http://www.flexmappers.com/arkade

Using the options in the left box users can zoom down to a ski resort level.
The type of overlay swf I am thinking about would be (not built by me and not precisely what I need):

http://www.flexmappers.com/trailmap.swf

I'd like to overlay something like this or even an equivalent png image (with a .7 alpha or so) over the top of the ski resort modest map. I'm a Flex developer with some Flash/image processing experience.

Cheers

mattsheehan replied on February 03, 2009 22:43 to the question "PNG or SWF Overlay" in Modest Maps:

Mike,

The question came out of a conversation about blending the real world ie. slippy tiles of real satellite imagery, with the abstract eg. generated swf or pngs of ski trails in a ski resort. Looking at an aerial satellite view of a ski resort in say google, is confusing. Its hard to make out individual trails, the extent of the skiing area etc. Usually resorts generate either a PDF, png or a swf of ski trails. What would be very cool is if you could combine modest maps with this type of abstract data source. Zooming into one zooms into the other. I imagine the abstract data would need to be georeferenced. Can't see how you could do the tiling on a swf, but interacting with a flash map overlaid on a slippy tiled satellite image offers exciting possibilities. But can it be done?

Cheers

--Matt

mattsheehan asked a question in Modest Maps on February 03, 2009 13:01:

PNG or SWF Overlay

I have been working with Modest maps building a portion of a snowboarder magazine web site. I have been asked if a ski map can be overlaid on top of modest maps; maybe a png or swf. I can't think how this could be done, with the map tiles. Just wondered if it is possible?
Thanks

mattsheehan replied on December 22, 2008 14:07 to the discussion "Tell Us About Your Experience With Modest Maps" in Modest Maps:

I've spent years using Flash now Flex for building front ends to Mapserver and ArcIMS spatial servers. Using Modest maps, I'm no longer locked into tool development. I can think more about the application itself; how to blend video, imagery, and text with the interactive tiled modest maps. The sky is truly the limit. I have some examples of various modest based projects at:

http://www.flexmappers.com

Thanks modest maps team

--Matt

mattsheehan asked a question in Modest Maps on December 19, 2008 13:55:

Keyboard Zoom Disable

I would like to remove the keyboard zoom ie. using - or + key. Just wondered if there is a simple way to do this?

mattsheehan asked a question in Modest Maps on October 27, 2008 01:03:

SWF Overlay on Modest Maps

I cannot think of a way to do this, not even sure its possible. But thought I'd ask the question.

I have created a flash application which has an image (in this case a ski resort) with interactive ski lifts overlay. Thus a user can show or hide the lifts, and zoom the image. Mousing over a lift pops up its name and other info. I wondered whether this could be done in modest maps? The image can be zoomified and used in modest maps. But is there a way to overlay the lifts swf?

It would be cool to add an interactive animation on top of modest maps. Any thoughts?

--Matt

mattsheehan replied on October 27, 2008 00:45 to the question "White text on black and white map" in Modest Maps:

many thanks
--Matt

mattsheehan asked a question in Modest Maps on October 07, 2008 14:46:

White text on black and white map

On the Trulia site I like the white text on the black and white map. By default modest maps outputs black text. Does anybody know how the generate this white text?