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Tag: Map

  • P2P Apps for Mobile Devices

    This post is a follow up to my session at Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2011, Bangalore on the 28th of July. I spoke on Peer to Peer for Mobile Devices with the Flash Platform. Peer to Peer has been around for a long time now, but its not often you see apps making use of this immensely capable technology. My talk covered the possibilities that could come to life with P2P on Mobile, along with some demo’s. Here is the Slide Deck,

    As part of my demo at AFPS, I wrote the RealTime Locator, a simple app that shares its location with every peer in a group over the RTMFP protocol. (more…)

  • Maps : Zoom into appropriate location

    Visitors end up seeing the entire world on the map when GeoCoordinates are not available.

    There are two ways to combat this,

    Either position map (calculate longitude) based on the timezone from system date,
    The entire map is still seen, but the map is positioned with the visitors location at the center.

    Below is the map show to a visitor from northern South America, instead of all continents.
    mapsCentered

    Here is how to do it,
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