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Video Maps
✓ Interactive video mapping to-go✓ Add mapper wrapper to your YouTube video
✓ Tell more of the story with in-depth interaction
Client(s)
motoChristo.com (in progress)
Opportunity
When Google Maps became THE browser based map app of choice I decided the time was right for an AJAX based Google Map Mash Up, and hopefully a user generated one.
First off, if it's really going to attract a User Generated market I gotta get it out of the Google Maps UI and into my own UI while leveraging Google Maps for data.
Secondly it will need to be fun and easy to use, in that order.
Solution
AS3 had recently hit the market, then Flash 9.
With each of these releases Adobe enhanced the heck out of Flash's video capabilities including the ability to add Cue Points to Flash videos at the publish stage or, better yet - on-the-fly programmatically.
Add to this a Flash JavaScript gateway and the video can interact with page elements or server side scripts dynamically and vice versa and some amazing things can start to happen.
So I decided to aim for allowing users to upload a video or embed a YouTube video in their page on my site and I'd build interactive wrappers for these videos.
For instance, from the home page you can type in your YouTube user name, select a video, instantly embed it in your player wrapper on my site and start adding interactions to it, like map points for various time points in the video.
Then you could take code from my site to embed the wrapped interactive player anywhere anytime.
Technologies
Google Maps, Flash, JavaScript, ActionScript, JSON
URLs
http://videomapz.com/dev
http://videomapz.com/dev/map3.htm
User: vm1
Pass: vm1