After I published my youtube video on the Google Maps multi-touch app I have had some demands for the source code of this Google Maps multi-touch Flash application. Hence, I have decided to make the source code of it publicly available on Google Code. You will find the sources on the mapstouch Google Code download page.

To be able to use it you need to generate your own Google Maps Api key. Use this explanation on how to tweak the code and choose the appropriate URL for your API key in order to prevent the red DEBUG strings (you can still see those strings on the screen in the image on the top of this post):

Put your own Google Maps API key in the variable map.key in the class GoogleMapsPureAS. Use the qualified name of your computer in the URL e.g.

http://johannes.local/googleMapsMultitouch

and not

http://localhost/googleMapsMultitouch

to get rid of the red DEBUG strings on the screen. Additionally, opening the SWF file in the Flash Player is not possible if you don’t want to see the DEBUG string. Open it in your browser under the appropriate URL where your Google Maps API key has been registered for.

If you have got more questions just ask them in the comments.

Update: You need the Google Maps for Flash API that you can download here. You have to include the swc file from the folder lib of the uncompressed sdk.zip file either in your Flash GUI or put it into the libs folder of your Flex Builder project.

Update 2: Please beware that executing Google Maps on a local computer or in the intranet seems to be not committed according to Google’s license agreements (see comments).

Update 3: I’ve posted another (even more detailed) explanation how to remove the DEBUG strings in the forum of the nuigroup.. Additionally, i’ve updated the Downloads on the mapstouch Google code page.

Quite some time since the actual private view at the Mall Galleris in London I have managed to put a little video about our Digital Volvelles application online. A more detailed video is going to come but until then watch this video please:

I’ve built a small Google Maps multi-touch app with Flex and Flash over the last days:

It uses the Google Maps Flash API and the TUIO Actionscript classes and the Touchlib from the Nuigroup.

The red stuff on the screen means that i am using the debug mode of Google Maps for Flash. That is because I execute the Flash file on my local computer. The problem is: For TUIO I need to connect to a local socket. Actually I don’t know how to access a local socket server with a Flash app that opens up in my browser on a remote site (and if this was possible it would scare the hell out of me). Seems like I need to live with the red stuff…

Maybe someone has wondered why I only use the view with satellite pictures. It is also possible to have the maps view but by the time I produced that video the maps servers were offline for a day.

Update: Google Maps Multi-touch Application Actionscript Code

The Touchlib offers lots of Flash related possibilities to build your own multi-touch applications. There are even some demo applications included in the package in the code version of the Touchlib.

Thus I took a demo photo application from them and replaced their Flickr images with mine and exchanged the whole mechanism for dragging and scaling (and left out rotating) for my logic (resp. niqui merret’s logic).

It’s just a me too photo app but nonetheless here we go:

Update: By common request I have decided to publish the source code: FlickrPhotoApp.zip. I put this code under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License (this means that you can use the code literally for everything but must mention my name).