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I just updated one of my favorite flash experiments - Earth Sampler. It was written in as2 and is based on a hand coded google map API. Essentially it replicates the quadtree tile referencing to create urls to specific image tiles, eg http://khm1.google.com.au/kh/v=55&t=trttqrttsqrstttrt there t is the quadtree tile reference. This implementation finds random strips of 4 contiguous tiles from a subset of 30 predefind zones. I had to restict it as I kept on getting ocean or low quality tiles. The effect is a composition of striking snapshots of the planet.

The update was because google keep on changing their tile reference and I don’t know when it will change again. I do however want to update the script to use either their official flash API or their staticmap api

Take a look, it’s at the bottom of the list.