I’ve created a test drive application that uses Yahoo Map APIs.
Here’s the link to the application:
http://www.shinstudio.com/lab/yahoo/map/MapNote
The features are as follows:
- Saves user’s last location and zoom level
- Adds Note that contains title, memo, and webcam capture image. (By rightclicking and selecting the first context menu)
- Uses mousewheel to zoom in/out
- Displays latest 15 entries
Here’s something to improve:
- Timing when to add marker. There is an issue that marker’s position gets screwed up when dragging map before marker gets rendered
- Adding picture upload feature from local machine, so that user can upload an image without having webcam
- Adding User account and group, so that only users in a group shares MapNote. (This could lead to community type of application)
The YahooMap is built using AS2, which is still quite slow to perform. I hope YahooMap team make AS3 version YahooMap soon, which I believe it will outperforms current yahooMap.