hi,
i played around a bit with the Flash API for Google Maps and came up with a touchable interface for Google Maps.

the red stuff on the screen tells that it’s the debug version of Google Maps (because the app is being executed on my local computer).

maybe some of you have seen my video on youtube already:

it’s still fairly simple because i currently haven’t got too much time. related to the touch earth thing from pawel it’s quite … plain. anyway, it should be nice to have the possibility to integrate a touchable maps view in a Flash app and have the ability to search for places and so on.

more on my blog.

Looking good Lagerkoller! Can’t wait to see more of the app!

Where TouchEarth doesn’t seem to zoom in exactly at the place where you want to zoom, yours seem to do it - I like that. Or am I wrong?

@Fairlane
thanks for the compliments!

i don’t think i will be able to develop the app further soon. but a bachelor student of my university will do so hopefully
however, it should be not so much an application because google earth is way better for that. it’s more a view, which you can embed in your touchable application (that is not possible with Google Earth).

@HyPE!
i spent some time to accomplish the correct zooming. it works great at distances from like country level to the highest detail. however, if you look sharply at the youtube video you will see that when i try to zoom in from the world view into the UK i land in Spain. I think there is some rounding error that is grave at large distances (i have to calculate the appropriate coordinate into which the “app” zooms in…).

cool stuff lagerkoller… keep up the great work!

did you have any plans on releasing the source so we all could work on it to make better?

Also I wonder how hard this would be to implement on AS3 Modest Maps library. (http://modestmaps.com/)

Nice work, saw your video yesterday on youtube…

Awesome. Looks pretty good.

i’m looking for a possibility to share the code. i will also i need to clean up the code a bit. i think i will put it on google code in the next days!

anyway, it’s a flex application with a bit of flex specific code in the main actionscript class (there is only one actually). so you will need to get hold of the flex builder to compile the project. however, i would recommend to anyone who is not afraid of code to use the flex builder to develop actionscript…

Nice would love to see the code

i forgot to tell that flex builder is free for education: just go here and upload an approval that you’re a student and adobe will send you a free licence number.

it’s really great for actionscript development (even if you don’t want to use any flex stuff).

i think i’ve made enough advertisement for it…

Very good, fantastic

Release the application program done well out directly, OK
That will be a very great philanthropic act
Oh yeah!

i’ve finally managed to make a pure actionscript application out of this Google Maps multi-touch thingy. You can download the source code at http://code.google.com/p/mapstouch/

i’ve written an explanation about how to tweak the source code in order to make it work (it doesn’t work out of the box because in the source code version the Google Maps API key is missing): Google Maps Multi-touch Actionscript Code and explanation how to tweak it

w00t!! \o/

nice work

Great, thank you very much for sharing

hi, someone from the google maps dev team mailed me a few days ago that i should consider that google maps must only be used over the internet. thus, it may not be used in a local application or in an intranet.

it seems like you can use the software for testing purposes locally but not in a commercial application.