Work from April, 2010

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Map Rendering Speed: Flash vs. HTML5 Canvas

Many people are talking about html5 and the death of Flash in these days, so I decided to do a small speed comparison of map renderings between HTML5 and Flash. I took the quick and dirty example from my previous map rendering tutorial and ported it into html5/javascript. The ...

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Tutorial: Rendering a World Map in ActionScript

This tutorial is the third part of a tutorial series about customized map projection in flash/actionscript. It demonstrates how to draw a world map using the as3-proj library and some helper classes. I assume that we read in a shapefile using the SHP library as shown in the previous tutorial.

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Tutorial: Reading ESRI Shapefiles in ActionScript

This tutorial is the second part of a tutorial series about customized map projection in flash/actionscript. It shows how to import a shapefile into ActionScript via the SHP library by Edwin van Rijkom.

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Reading ESRI Shapefiles in PHP

This tutorial is the first part of a tutorial series about customized map projection in flash/actionscript. It shows how to extract plain coordinates out of a shapefile using the PHP Class Shapefile Reader by Juan Carlos Gonzales.

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Map Projection in ActionScript

Today I want to introduce as3-proj, an actionscript port of the java map projection library by Jerry Huxtable, which is itself an partial port of the PROJ.4 library. It's basically a huge set of over sixty ...

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