Runningmap.com which uses the Yahoo maps Flash API gets props from Leo Laporte
Congrats to Randy Troppmann and his team at runningmap.com. Their awesome Yahoo Maps mashup was featured on the “The Lab with Leo Laporte” last week.
I got to know Randy while working at Yahoo on the map API. Randy is an excellent example of what can be done with a powerful API. Randy is very active in the Yahoo Maps discussion board where he is always helping other Flash developers with their API question. Great work Randy, from what you said to Leo it sounds like you have some exciting updates coming, were you hinting at a paid subscription service when you said “this level will always be free”? What won’t be free? Can I say I know another future millionaire?
5 Responses so far
pete
October 2nd, 2007
7:51 pm
Google has a Flash component too - so Randy isnt entirly right.
The app is way cool though
Derrick
October 2nd, 2007
9:51 pm
Very cool, just plotted out my morning jog. Neat to figure out how far it actually is.
Randy Troppmann
October 2nd, 2007
11:50 pm
Thanks for the link Scott! Many thanks to you as a member of the Y! Maps team for the maps-in-flash API and also to Aaron King, Zach Graves, Chuck Freedman and the rest (sorry if I missed you). Runningmap proves that building rich content and interactivity on top of tiled maps is a much better performer than relying on javascript a la AJAX. And is a more mature and better platform to develop with.
Pete, there are third party Flash APIs but no Google sanctioned solutions that I know of. What components do you speak of?
I was working on being a thousand-aire but I think we achieved that since house values have gone up so much here in St. Albert. We are no where near an ocean and several thousand kilometers north of Mickey so I don’t think real estate is the answer.
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