I have a very big map (pixeldata, not vector) and i want to create a viewer in flash that allows to view the map. The map is stored (in some way, to be decided) on a server. Probably the map will be stored in different resolutions on the server.
The viewer should download the currently needed parts in the proper resolution at the current zoomlevel from the server to display it – similarily to google maps for example.
Now – i already have some ideas on how to do this – but maybe there is already a framework available for exactly this or some good article describing it (client as well as server-vise).
Anyone got a hint?
Try using zoomify.
http://www.zoomify.com/
they have a flash library that handles this use case very well.
but never mind that they have not updated their embed codes on the site in a while. (broken in chrome) you can update it with swfobject and be rolling in no time.