How to find an address with Google maps Flash API

After the Flash Google maps API release I spend some time to see what is possible. I started with the documentation from Google. In there documentation they are using the latitude and longitude coordinates to set the center of your map. This is not really a human readable way to do it and personally I never used the latitude and longitude coordinates to find a city or street in Google Maps. That is why I started searching for a way to center the map with an address.

I build a small application with source-code available in Flex that is using this technique. In the left upper corner you can search your own address. I use ClientGeocoder to search for the address but the problem i’m running in to is that you can’t run it local because he returns this error.

Warning: Domain maps.googleapis.com does not explicitly specify a 
meta-policy, but Content-Type of policy file 
http://maps.googleapis.com/mapsapi/crossdomain.xml is 
'text/x-cross-domain-policy'.  Applying meta-policy 'by-content-type'.

You can’t use ClientGeocoder crossdomain. You should call it from a domain that has a registered Google Maps API key in my case “http://blog.arnomanders.nl”.

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3 responses to “How to find an address with Google maps Flash API”

  1. Jeff Avatar
    Jeff

    The google map seems to work great, you mention it is available with source code but I could not find a link to the source code.

  2. Arno Manders Avatar

    You have to start the application and than you can find the source under your right mouse button

  3. anllie Avatar

    muchas gracias, muy útil tu post.

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