[thelist] Flash question

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What you might want to consider doing is is breaking the map into 3
different resolutions with 6 chunks in each resolution.  Then the navigation
would move them around the 6 chunks, and their level of resolution would
control the resolution of the chunk loaded to look at.  SO you could have
your mapquest type east,west, north, south buttons that would move around
the 6 chunks and based on their zoom you load the appropriate resolution of
the chunks of the map as they navigate.  I'm an advanced actionscript user
and would be avaliable to work on this if your interested.  You also might
want to conider running the map through some vector simplifying software as
well.  There are some third part applications that can simplyfy vectors so
you might be able to avoid some of the cutting up and such.  Also you could
break the map into 3 layers.. like layer 1 would be major roads and city
names.. the next layer could be more detailed roads and the final one could
be bike trails, train tracks etc.  You could start by loading the smaller,
less detailed one, then stream in the other more detailed layers over top.
That way the user can move around the whole map with freedom while the
remaining layers load in over top of the map.  I look forward to seeing how
you'll handle this, let us know.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diane Soini" <dianesoini at earthlink.net>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 1:24 AM
Subject: [thelist] Flash question


> I am going to make a map using Flash, or that's the plan. I'm a terrible
programmer and my web site uses nothing more complex than poorly written cgi
scripts, server-side includes and text/html files. With that said, I'm
wondering what to do because the cartographer has informed me that exported
to .swf his map is 2.6 megs! The map is too big. How would I "slice" this
thing up or otherwise make it more manageable? There's no way I can program
flash to draw such complicated lines with actionscript, either. I was hoping
to keep it a vector graphic so that I can make the trails clickable objects.
>
> I'm not really sure what to do. If the file wasn't so big, it would be a
simple task.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Diane at santabarbarahikes.com
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