{"id":235,"date":"2009-07-16T22:19:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T03:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:39:29","slug":"simple-shapefile-drawing-in-actionscript-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/simple-shapefile-drawing-in-actionscript-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple shapefile drawing in ActionScript 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shapefile<\/p>\n

Recently I’ve heard two friends independently inquire about some sort of basic guide for loading and drawing a shapefile in Flash. The only real tutorial\/example I can recall is here<\/a>, dealing with Google Maps. But these guys are looking for something more bare-bones. Being a regular user of Edwin van Rijkom<\/a>‘s invaluable code libraries<\/a> for reading shapefiles, and usually forgetting the process myself, I thought it would be a good idea to put together a very simple set of AS3 classes that load a shapefile and throw a map on screen. <\/p>\n

So to get those jerks off my back, I wrote a little thing called ShpMap, which supplements van Rijkom’s classes by loading and drawing a shapefile. It’s nothing fancier than that. Sometimes all you need is to get your base map on screen. (Update<\/strong>: just to round it out a little more, I’ve added basic loading and parsing of a shapefile’s accompanying DBF file, which contains attribute data. This also uses classes by van Rijkom.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

I hope that this class (and the several associated classes) can both be directly usable for some projects and serve as a basic guide to using van Rijkom’s classes to load shapefiles.<\/p>\n

Dig it:<\/p>\n