RunningMap.com: major update
Dave and I worked hard last fall-early winter to put together this new version of RunningMap.com which was release to our production website last night. It has been in testing over the last couple months and it feels great to finally get it out there.
The brilliant new design was the creation of designer/runner Sarah Ramsden. I decided I was too close to the project to be objective and the design needed a different eye, so Sarah was enlisted. I couldn’t be happier with the design.
This version still features the AS2 Yahoo! Maps component. Very recently Yahoo! announced a new AS3 based maps component. Needless to say I am hard at work rewriting the application in Flex and so far I am seeing improvements in performance that are astounding. The AS2 version of runningmaps was pushing the Flash Player to its limits. Now with AS3 it’s a new ball game and it will be exciting to see how far we can push it.
A special shout out goes out to Zach Graves for the excellent work on the new maps API.
