Working with ESRI SHP Files in ActionScript
September 4th, 2009
There are lots of heavy weight solutions to drawing maps in Flex and Flash but for a recent project I needed something lightweight to display on a web portal. By lightweight, I mean something that will load quickly over a modem connection or, in our client’s situation, an air card. We already had sales alignment maps created in the ESRI SHP format so the goal was to utilize them in the Flash environment to make displaying maps more interactive. This post will cover the basics of loading SHP files and rendering them with basic ActionScript code. No Flex components were used to keep the footprint small.
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