My latest Flash based location app is called Find Me and is basically a mash up using Google Maps API, the GMap Flash component and a geo-ip script that tweets your location on Twitter. Take a look at it here. Please note that is in beta at the moment. You will also need a Twitter account set up which can be done here. To tweet your location simply enter your username and password and click on the green tick. When the app loads click on the little transmit icon at the bottom right. Your information is stored on a cookie on your local machine and is not saved anywhere on my server. If you like...

Not that I mean to show off or anything, but I was in Web Designer Mag again this month. This time they were featuring my Locator panel extension for the GMap component. The extension is a search engine for latitude and longitude co-ordinates that can be entered into the GMap component as points on a map. To read about it, take a look at the original post here. Take a read of Web Designer Mag for loads of Flash, Dreamweaver and Photoshop goodness, plus subscribe to my RSS feed to stay updated on my future Flash work.

After many hours of hard work by the team here at the SizzlaMedia offices (ok just me, in the study) the problem with the GMap powered apps has been fixed. Turns out a Google Analytics script was somehow appearing in the Flash apps. Once I removed the script everything seemed to work just fine! Hopefully we won’t see any more errors popping up!!

I’m on Advanced Flash Components!! My two GMap enabled mash-ups have been posted on the AFC website. AFC make the GMap component and lots of other fantastic ones. Give them a try for your next project

The Locator Panel has now been updated to v1.2. The update improves the functionality of the Map, in terms of being controlled by the keyboard and mouse. It also improves feedback when a connection is lost or cannot be found. You can download the panel from here.

Hot on the heels of my Flash/GoogleMaps mashup comes this extension for Flash. This was created as an easy way to add points to the GMap component and is great if your not planning on making your map dynamic but instead want to add static points. ‘Locator’ is pretty much a slimmed down version of the mashup packaged into an extension. It allows you to enter a location into the search field and see the Latitude and Longitude aswell as its position on a map. This is still in beta mode but is available for download. Creating the extension was pretty simple, after following a tutorial...