Google Maps API for Flash + AIR: How did we ever breathe before?

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Det her må være guf for Matt Giger: http://gisdk.blogspot.com/2008/11/earthbrowser.html
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This must be just the thing for Matt Giger: http://gisdk.blogspot.com/2008/11/earthbrowser.html
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Just a little over six months ago our team announced the release of the Google Maps API for Flash. Flash developers around the world welcomed this new API with excitement... and a barrage of feature requests. By far the most popular one in the past six months has been the compatibility with Adobe AIR.

Throughout its three years of existence, the Google Maps API has become one of the most popular online APIs for creating web mapping applications at a time when web was the hot new thing. Well, in the past year, Adobe has taken web apps back to the desktop, with their innovative AIR product.

There were both technical and legal challenges blocking AIR support in our API. AIR has a different security model, which required a number of changes to the "internal plumbing" of the API in order to implement our delayed-loading model, where the actual implementation of the map's functionality loads dynamically from Google's servers once the application launches. Also, our Terms of Service used to specify that the Maps API could only be used for online web applications.

Now that both the API and Terms of Service have undergone a facelift, we are releasing the first version of the API that will allow Flash/Flex developers to bring Google Maps to the AIR runtime. [...]

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Read more: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-maps-api-for-flash-air-how-did.html

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