Custom Map Types & Tile Layers

[dvs_code]

Hi, All!

OK, now we have seen a lot of requests on the MapType & TileLayer functionality. We are now able to give you an example code for this. Thanks to Vladimir (deep2see) from Kazakhstan, who has created many samples, which use UMap & custom map types. You can see his work here: http://new-tech.intway.info/p1.htm

Here is how you do it:

1. Create new .fla file and save it somewhere.
2. Drag & drop UMap component instance on Stage, give it an instance name "map".
3. Copy & paste this AS to the first frame of your movie:

[pbohny]

Thank you Dmitry. Many Thanks to Vladimir (deep2see).

I really appreciate this input. It was what I needed to get further.
I have been playing around, adapting a view things to my needs an I am able to publish my custom maps now. I still have view issues to solve on my map tiles, but the Umap part seems to function well.

[deep2see]

Hi Dmitry, Pbhony, All !
Today we have begun a stage of application of interactivity to Tile maping.
In our Demo to Gallery it is possible to see (point 9).
http://new-tech.intway.info/p1.htm
Join!
Vladimir

[jatorre]

Hey, this is really cool!

One question. What does

x=[x]&y=[y]

stands for.

I mean, how do you define your tiles by x and y? is the top left corner or something like this?

I wanna create a WMS Tile layer.

Javier.

[andreit]

Those parameters define the way you image grid is referenced. Is there a specific WMS tile server that you are trying to connect? How are your images are named?

[jatorre]

WMS dynamically creates images on the fly, so it is not really tile files...

an example URL to generate a 256*256 half world view map would be:

http://geoserver.gbif.org/wms?LAYERS=gbif%3AgbifDensityLayer&VERSION=1.0.0&TRANSPARENT=true&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&SERVICE=WMS&STYLES=&REQUEST=GetMap&EXCEPTIONS=application%2Fvnd.ogc.se_inimage&SRS=EPSG%3A4326&BBOX=-180,-90,0,90&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256

I am trying to transform your X Y into my bounding box defined in this param:

&BBOX=-180,-90,0,90

I have found some Javascript doing something similar in:
http://maps.kylemulka.com/wms/GMaps_WMSSpec_0.1.js

And now I am trying to make it work and see what I get.

[deep2see]

Andrey!
About it you need to look here:
http://www.demis.nl/home/pages/Gallery/examples.htm
We worked with WMS Demis technologies much.
It works very slowly. These are old approaches.
Google with Tile technologies it decides better much more!
Vladimir

[jatorre]

Yes, I know it is slow But with some caching could work fine.
WMS is a standard, and that is cool, there is a lot of maps around there already published this way and hopefully at some point there will be some tile mechanism based on WMS... whatever...

But still, what does the X and Y represent? I suppose is like a point that tells you somehow a grid cell in your system. But if it is a grid, why do you have X and Y and not just the ID of the cell somehow...

Aghh I am confused...

Can I asked Vladimir how did you get your tiles done? This looks like coming from ArcIMS or something like this.

Thanks in advance.

[deep2see]

Hi jatorre!
Any caching with WMS is not present!
It is at Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.
Therefore we have stopped on Tile technologies
On other questions to you will answer AFC
On ARC - look http://new-tech.intway.info/p1.htm point 8
Thanks,
Vladimir

[jatorre]

Hi all,

I managed to create my WMSLayer to be able to use WMS servers as a TileLayer

The only tricky part is converting from the Google tile system to Lat/Long bounding box. I hope everything is correctly explained in the code.
The other tricky part is that Google maps uses different projections at different zoom levels so might have to adapt a little bit... In any case here goes the code (look at the WMSLayer constructor):

This goes to the file where you create your map:

[erich_erlangga]

thanks to this excellent post! and also thanks for vladimir for his kind help through email
i've just successfully load tiles from http://www.maps-for-free.com/ provider but still having a hard time
to remove tileLayer that's already been added to MapType using addLayer().
The application has several checkboxes to add/remove spesific tileLayer base on checkboxes current selection.
Any hint of how to get reference to specific tileLayer and remove it?

[darianaden]

I am new to the AFComponent and would like to use it in a specific way.

We are using a City map of Baltimore exported from ArcGIS as a vector image and uploaded into Flash where we created Census Block groups (710 of them) as a layer to allow the user to select and save block groups they are developing projects in.

Once the selection is made the block groups are saved together with numerical identifiers in a database and then recalled into the map so that all users can see which block groups contain which projects. Some projects will occupy the same block groups so we need to be able to use markers to indicate multiple projects - your approach in UMAP 0.6 would work perfectly - but will it work over a Flash movie clip - where the provider would be the movie clip itself?

Thanks for any information.

[pbohny]

After updating to v 0.6 I do get compile errors:

[erich_erlangga]

for TileLayer, the new package location --> com.afcomponents.umap.providers.TileLayer

[dvs_code]

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