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G'day. Some of you will remember my presentation from MXDU 2004 on GIS apps written in Flash. Out of interest I put the swfs up on our site to see how well they worked over the net - as it turns out surprisingly well. If you have a broadband connection and a bit of spare RAM (it eats RAM for breakfast) try this link:

try the GIS app

It takes a while to load, remember there are over a million data points to clip and render using the drawing API. Click to recentre the map, shift drag up and down to zoom. It works best if you zoom in a fair way then move around - see if you can get ahead of the renderer then watch as it catches up and fills in the detail of wherever you've got to.

A zipped version of the presentation I gave is available here:

zipped presentation

Cheers, Robin

I built a fairly involved Flash app for drilling down and selecting geographic regions to refine searches on the Trading Post ® Classifieds website. Regions are defined as clusters of local government areas (LGAs). The GIS data required masses of optimisation and then reconfiguration to support level-of-detail streaming. Check it out at www.tradingpost.com.au - choose any General category to the left of the screen, then on the next screen choose a State and click the Region link. I also developed a Flash app for placing ads on the Trading Post ® Classifieds. Click the 'Place Your Ad' link to take a look. Enjoy! Trading Post ® is an Australian registered trade mark of Telstra Corporation Ltd. This company has requested and has been granted permission from Telstra Corporation Ltd to use the Trading Post ® trade mark. This company is not otherwise associated with Telstra Corporation or any of it's subsidiaries.

Hey Robin, really sweet app! where on earth did you get the data for this???

Hi Lucas, Geoscience Australia - the URL and details are in the presso. Cheers Robin PS: Make sure we catch up next time you're in Sydney!

D'oh! I really should have looked there first! Never feer, next time I am in Sydney town, the first beer will be on me!

Robin - Don't do it. Lucas has a thing for getting covered in beer!!

Covered in beer??? now that would be a first! What a waste of beer!