Category Archives: Map

Rare Bug: SWF can’t load XML because of Mod_Deflate

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Chris

I recently had a customer complain that our FlashUSAmap was not working on their server.  The usmap.swf file was in the same directory as the map.xml file, but the xml file was not loading properly.  After much frustration, the customer … Continue reading →

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Flash Europe Map

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Chris

We have just introduced a new interactive map: a Flash Europe Map. This map offers all the features of our flash world map, but is smaller in size and focuses on Europe (there is no zoom feature with this map). It … Continue reading →

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Interactive Flash Congressional District Map

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Chris

Our latest product is a Flash Congressional District Map.  It contains all 435 current Congressional districts in the United States House of Representatives.  It is perfect for displaying election information in an interactive format.  It uses the base code of … Continue reading →

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Happiness and Suicide Rates by State

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Chris

Updated – 3-7-2011 A few days ago I posted about suicide rates.  Then, I came across this article talking about the happiest states.   I decided to visualize the happiness data so you could compare and contrast it against the suicide … Continue reading →

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Flash Map in GoDaddy’s Website Tonight

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Chris

Occasionally I get requests for help on how to install our flash maps on GoDaddy’s Website Tonight.  I don’t use this service so it has always been difficult to help.  However, a user kindly wrote up instructions on how to install … Continue reading →

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Add an Interactive Map to your WordPress Blog

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Chris

One of the most common questions I get is whether it is possible to add an interactive Flash map to a WordPress blog.  Yes, it is possible.  In fact, this blog is powered by WordPress and you can see an … Continue reading →

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Interactive Flash Canada Map

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Chris

One of the common requests we’ve received at FlashUSAmap.com is for a map of Canada.  I’m happy to announce that we’ve just released just such a map.  The Interactive Flash Canada Map includes all 13 provinces.   It is built with … Continue reading →

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Trick: Keeping Browsers from Caching XML

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Chris

This summer I created a cool implementation of our flash us map.  I created an automatically updating state intensity map for unemployment rates.  You can check it out here.  It is based on the php code that powers this tool and the FRED … Continue reading →

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Robinson Projection in AS3 GPL

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Chris

One of the coolest features of our new interactive world map is that you can add location markers to the map using latitude and longitude.  And, I’m going to open source the code and show how I did this with … Continue reading →

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A Better Flash World Map

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Chris

Seven months ago we began selling a USA flash map.  Since that time we’ve been tweaking the map as we’ve spoken with customers and learned more about Flash.  This experience has been invaluable as we’ve worked on our latest project.  … Continue reading →

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