Re: FLASH: MapInfo (was: bite)

[Len Conrad]

John,


We use MapInfo, we don't get into the file format level.  sorry


It looks like Avenza might be my way to go, but I'm still reflecting on a

Flash solution for a general-

public Web server, ie, it's gonna take a lot of time and money to put up

Flash, so how many of our visitors can really use it, and what's the delta

in gaining ease-of-use, visitor fidelity, word-of-mouth, etc  vs. just

shoving out gif's?   


I'd appreciate any URL's where Flash-in-GIS is used for serious results

rather than just  eye candy squigglies and entertainment.


Ours is a lodging site locator application with 75000+ sites spread over

all of France.  Not at all clear to me how to bring Flash, expensively,

into that situ and achieve real gains, not just gee-whiz F/X.


Len


>>I'd like to take a look at Flash for a geographic mapping project.

>>The maps are now gifs generated off-line by MapInfo MapX.

>>What is the best path to get the MapInfo .TAB vector files into Flash3?

>

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>I took a chance and tried the URL http://www.mapinfo.com/ , and got a hit

>with the company. I then tried to find some info on a .TAB file format, but

>did not turn up hits in 10-15 minutes of searching. Closest I got to an

>export format was their technote on exporting MapInfo data to a printer EPS

>file.

>

>Can you fill in the blanks here? Do you actually have text-delivered curve

>information in some type of .TAB format? Would I be right in guessing that

>you might be thinking of some type of realtime, online generation, rather

>than just a static export?

>

>What's the rest of the background...?

>

>(If you're seeking to do designtime transfer of data, then look at what

>formats your particular software exports as. These can then be matched to

>possible Flash imports. Tracing might even be applicable.)

>

>jd

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