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Using Map Overlays with Flex and the Mapquest 5.2 APIs

Ok, I was driving (very carefully, mind you) on a very sunny afternoon to the airport, and I got a call from my very bright and brilliant niece who recently enrolled into Michigan State University (MSU if you're a Michigan native). During the midpoint of the conversation, all I heard was "cell phone silence", for lack of a better term, and within a few more seconds the call was dropped -- argh!

Obviously, I'm not the only person in the world who gets aggravated when a mobile call gets dropped. Of course, my wireless carrier has to go unnamed here in order to protect the guilty... er, uh... innocent.

Creating Points of Interest with Flex and the MapQuest 5.2 APIs

So, if you read my previous blog post and tried out the example code that I provided, then you should be pretty comfortable using Flex and ActionScript with the MapQuest 5.2 APIs. I'm truly amazed that the MapQuest development team made it so easy for developers to create location-based applications for Flex applications. And for that matter, just in case you didn't know, the MapQuest APIs are available for other languages like Java, .NET, C++, and JavaScript, but since I'm really enthusiastic about using Flex, so I'm going to focus on the Flex side of things.

First Post! - Getting started with Flex and the MapQuest 5.2 APIs

Back in the day, there was always some glory about getting the first post on a popular topic on Slashdot. The first-poster got the opportunity to lead the discussion (or flame war) on the current topic that was on the site. Well, this is my first post on the AOL developer site, so let me introduce myself. I'm Bruce Hopkins, the author of the book, "Bluetooth for Java" by Apress, and I have have recently fallen in love with Flex and ActionScript programming. I've used Java for over 10 years (way back with JDK 1.0a) and it's great for server-side application development, but lacks in certain areas for client-side applications. Well, unless you've been in a cave for the last 2 years, you probably already know that Flex works extermely well for client-side applications, and plays nicely with integrating with Java EE, .NET, SOAP, and REST backends.

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