Flash integration with Google maps

(Click on the image above to view the Flash Google map example in your browser window)

Buteo Software has broken new ground with the hugely successful development of a flash overlay for Google maps!  So far there has been no documentation online of anyone accomplishing this tricky feat.  We developed this new technology for one of our top clients, J.Peterman.  (Yep, that’s right.  The Seinfeld character, who actually happens to be a real guy, with a real business, in case you didn’t know)  They wanted a Yahoo map, originally, which presented a fair challenge, but not beyond our scope, since this has been tinkered with before, to some success.  However, much to everyone’s dismay, the Yahoo map zoom function does not play nicely with flash and we experienced a lag when we tried zooming in and out.  Nothing exscrutiating, but not ideal, to say the least.

So we started again from scratch with a Google map instead, to see if the speed could be improved…  And, voila!  It did!  We were very happy to find that Google did a much better job of coding the map functions, and our Flash overlay did nothing to disrupt the flow.

With a very happy client and a dozen more additions underway, we are currently in the process of developing and adding even more features to the map and will be posting those here as soon as they are complete!

Stay tuned!