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If you’re reading this, you’ve likely been following our Flash Maps API and Open Flash Maps API. Well today, we’re here to announce the initial beta release of our newest Flash product, the Mobile Flash Maps API!!

Pinch zooming, larger icons and larger close buttons are just a few ways in which the Mobile Flash Maps API has been optimized for mobile devices.

Thanks to Adobe’s release of the Flex and Flash Builder 4.5.1 SDK, we’re able to provide the same cross-platform mobile capabilities in our Mobile Flash Maps API. As a result, the API is able to support development of iOS, Android and Blackberry Tablet applications using the same code base. That’s right, code once, deploy everywhere!

This release of the Mobile Flash Maps API contains the vast majority of the functionality found in our Flash Maps API and has also been optimized for mobile application development.

Key features are listed below.

Pinch-to-Zoom: Multi-touch gestures now supported for zooming
Larger POI Icons: Default POI icons have been increased in size to aid in touch gestures on mobile devices
Larger Close Buttons: InfoWindow close buttons have also been enlarged to allow for easier touching
Mapping: Use a drag and drop Tilemap Component for the Flash Builder IDE, or a pure ActionScript TileMap object
Geocoding: Basic geocoding, batch geocoding and reverse geocoding
Routing: Textual driving directions, route ribbons for map display, and route shapes for drawing your own route ribbons
Searching: Radius, polygon, rectangle searching, etc
Traffic: View current traffic conditions, including traffic incidents and ongoing construction

To start developing your own mobile application using the Mobile Flash Maps API, please visit MapQuest Beta APIs and SDKs where you can download the API and the source code to a sample application.

And remember, this is still beta and we’d love it if you can provide some feedback at flashapibeta@mapquest.com, on the Mobile Flash Maps API Beta Forums or @MapQuestTech if you can squeeze it within 140 characters!

This week is exciting, we should have several things to announce. First up, version 7 of our JavaScript Mapping API has been released. This release features expanded mobile support, updated map controls, better documentation and for you geonerds out there, a special treat – MapQuest now is on the Mercator projection. Mobile Support We support…

Geocoding is a very utilitarian tool and also one of the most popular capabilities in the MapQuest Platform. Did you know geocoding can also be witty, fun and exciting? Here’s how: Oh So Witty: It assigns a latitude and longitude coordinate to a street address, zip code, intersection, or geographic boundary. Exciting: Because without geocoding, you…

As many of you are aware, MapQuest has had a Static Maps API Service using licensed data for quite some time now. So, it’s only fair that we now provide the same service using open data for the open community! What does the API do then? The Open Static Map Service enables the user to…

SXSW Interactive has traditionally served not just to launch new products, but also as a collaborative brain trust where the dialogue on stage continues into Austin’s streets. Along with some esteemed industry friends, I had the pleasure of participating on a SXSW panel last month covering the topic: "Interoperable Location Data: Matching Your Places with…

Yes, it’s true, the latest version of our Flash Maps API is in Mercator Projection! We’ve also added a number of new features and made other improvements with Version 7.0.0, some of which can be found in our official release notes and summarized below. Mercator Projection Online map projections can go unnoticed for many but…

Today we’re here to announce the latest improvement to our Flash Maps API – support of the MapQuest Open Initiatives!! Dubbed the Open Flash Maps API, this API is very similar to the standard Flash Maps API except it relies solely on open data. It includes support of OpenStreetMap, Open Aerial Tiles, Open Directions Service,…

It’s summer time and no matter where you are, that can mean some pretty interesting weather! Let’s explore what we can do to mash-up weather forecasts with MapQuest maps. Step One: Find a simple weather web service. I like to use the GeoNames web service for two reasons: it’s free and in json. Further documentation…

New data, new services, this is just how we roll! With the latest addition of transit data, developers can now incorporate transit routing into their own mapping application. Using this service is really no different than directly calling for our driving, walking, or biking directions. Simply changing the routeType to ‘multimodal‘ will prompt MapQuest to…

We’re very pleased to announce that more tools have been released today for the Open Developer Community! Here’s the cool new stuff: – Xapi (pronounced ‘zappy’): This a read-only OpenStreetMap (OSM) extended API providing enhanced search and querying capability for nodes, ways, and relations where the results are returned in XML format. This Xapi tool…

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MapQuest JavaScript API version 7 released!

Geocoding is exciting

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Interoperable Location Data

Flash Maps API: Now in Mercator!

Open Flash Maps API with OpenStreetMap Support!

Click the Map for Weather

Transit Routes Now Available for the (Open) Directions API

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