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GeoFeeder now officially signed

With the new, official certificate from Chosen Security, i created a new version of GeoFeeder (with only an increased version number) with my new certificate. Then used ..\sdks\3.2.0\bin\adt -migrate -storetype pkcs12 -keystore self_signed_cert.p12 GeoFeeder_121.air GeoFeeder_121_certswitch.air to manually wrap it with the old, self-signed signature. This way an update can be verified by the installed version [...]


Realtime Traffic Messages

Update: constantly improving the decoder … I finally set up a small embedded linux computer (ZFx86 @ 100MHz, 32MB) with one of my mp5_redux PC104 add-on boards to receive and decode TMC (Traffic Message Channel)-messages out of RDS (Radio Data System). The system is set up to receive SWR3 (coverage: nrw, hessen, rheinland-pfalz, saarland, baden-württemberg, [...]


GeoRSS Viewer/Reader in AIR

Just did a quick wrapper around the GeoRSS reader classes, got GeoFeeder; then simply couldn’t stop to improve it. Try any GeoRSS feed you know of, but be aware: every feed sucessfully parsed will be “recorded” for all other users to see. See the GeoFeeder page for details. Please upgrade your Flash Player This is [...]


Serving RDS/TMC info via GeoRSS

As RSS and GeoRSS get more popular every day, here are my 2ct: Once again recycling old code: pulled my RDS/TMC decoder out of the drawer and made a running setup. Then wrote a simple script to generate a GeoRSS feed from it. The hardest part is getting the traffic information formatted right: having a [...]


Scientific imaging with AS3 maptech-lib

Just a quick note: received a request to use Maptech on microscopic images. Threw together an adapted client. The original demo is no longer available. Please see the enhanced demo. A server-side script scans for directories holding zoomify images, sorts them lexically and adds then to the client in sort order. Zoomify’s ImageProperties.xml is extended [...]