Official Google Maps API Blog: Introducing the Google Maps API for Flash
I have been enjoying Google Earth and Google Maps a lot, ever since it came out from the very beginning. As in my previous post, Google Maps is one of businesses that Google has rolled out to tremendously benefit the society, especially the GIS world. There had been online maps before Google Maps, but none of them covered as wide area and had as many contents has Google Maps. It is good that the income Google has earned through its other businesses can in turn contribute to the evolution of the society in this way.
Google Map API is also one of my favorite tools so far. It enables people to create contents they can never dreamed of, simply because the difficult of getting and handling map contents. My exercise on Yahoo! Japan Geocities is here. It is still very simple without any help messages, and takes time to figure out how to work. But it serves the purpose to show how easy writing a map application with Google Maps API can be.
The extension of Google Maps API to Flash support no doubt adds more flexibility and dimensions to application development. I will try it out soon and post the result again.
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