Gemstone and Jewelry

Gemstone mines map using yahoo map webservices

mark@jewelinfo4u.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:26:13 GMT

Yahoo got fantastic web service components to use at free of cost. One of them which caught my attention to use for jewelinfo4u.com was yahoo map web services components. They have Adobe flex version yahoo map component, which gives flexibility to build custom map applications.

I used yahoo flex map component to build gemstone mines map application using adobe flex builder 2. Beauty of this application is the mines location is dynamic, in the sense the mines geometric locations (Lat, long) stored in a database and an xml web service is used to get the location information. The flex map component is used to display the maps in any format chosen by the user (satellite, hybrid, Map). The mine locations are denoted using markers by calling the xml web service. Check the following pages for the action in live.

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Amber_Mines.aspx

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Amazonite_Mines.aspx

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Turquoise_Mines_Map.aspx

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Onyx_Mines.aspx

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Aquamarine_Mines.aspx

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Ruby_Mines_Map.aspx

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Emerald_Mines.aspx

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Sapphire_Mines.aspx

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Interactive_Amethyst_Mines_Map.aspx

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Alexandrite_Mines.aspx

http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/Agate_Mines.aspx

For more information on getting started guide for Yahoo flex map component: http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/flash/flexGettingStarted.html

Sample code I used here:




      import flash.utils.getTimer;
    import mx.controls.Alert;
      import com.yahoo.webapis.maps.methodgroups.*;
      import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
      import mx.rpc.http.HTTPService;
      import flash.events.*;
            import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
      private const SWFDOMID:String = "Amber_Mines";
          private const UNIQUEID:int = getTimer();
      private const YAHOOAPIKEY:String = "Yahoo app key";
      private const MAPSWF:String = "as2map.swf";
            private var latLonController:LatLonController;
      private var mapController:MapController;
                  private var service:HTTPService;
                                    public function GetMines(url:String):void
            {
                                    service = new HTTPService();
                                    service.url = url;
                                    service.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, resultHandler);
                                    service.send();
                                                }
            private function resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void
            {
                var result:ArrayCollection = event.result.Mines.Mine as ArrayCollection;
                        var i:int;
                        for(i = 0; i < result.length; i++)
                        {
                                    fillLatLong(result.getItemAt(i));
                                                            }
            }
            private function fillLatLong(test:Object):void
            {
                var sName:String;
                var sPlace:String;
                var sState:String;
                var sCountry:String;
                sName = test.Name;
                sState = test.State;
                sCountry = test.Country;
                                sState = sState+ ", " + sCountry;
                                 var markerArgs:Object = {index:'A!', title:sName,description:sState, markerColor:0xff0000, strokeColor:0xDFDFDF};
                 latLonController.addMarkerByLatLon("CustomPOIMarker",Number(test.Lat), Number(test.Long),markerArgs);
            }
                        private function init():void {
            myAS2Map.addEventListener('onMapLoad', onMapLoaded);
            myAS2Map.addEventListener('onMapError', onMapError);
         }
                        private function onMapLoaded(ev:Object):void {
            var panTools:PanTool = new PanTool(myAS2Map);
            panTools.setPanTool(true);
                        mapController = new MapController(myAS2Map);
                              var widgets:Widgets = new Widgets(myAS2Map);
            widgets.showNavigatorWidget();
            widgets.showSatelliteControlWidget();
                        latLonController = new LatLonController(myAS2Map);
            GetMines("http://www.jewelinfo4u.com/utils/GetMines.aspx ");
                                                                                                                    }
                        private function onMapError(errorCode:String, httpStatus:String):void {
            Alert.show(errorCode + '\n' + httpStatus, 'Load Error');
         }
   ]]>

Tourmaline

mark@jewelinfo4u.com — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:18:39 GMT

Tanzanite

mark@jewelinfo4u.com — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:17:05 GMT

Ruby

mark@jewelinfo4u.com — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:15:45 GMT

Peridot

mark@jewelinfo4u.com — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:14:03 GMT

Lapis Lazuli Video

mark@jewelinfo4u.com — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:11:29 GMT

Agate Video

mark@jewelinfo4u.com — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:09:28 GMT

Opal Video

mark@jewelinfo4u.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:14:32 GMT

Opal Video... Courtesy: http://www.opalzone.com

Sapphire Video

mark@jewelinfo4u.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:11:35 GMT

Blue star sapphire video... courtesy : apsara.co.uk

World Most famous diamonds

mark@jewelinfo4u.com — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:28:55 GMT

CARATS	NAME	COLOUR	SHAPE	ORIGIN	OWNER
545.67	Golden Jubilee	Gold brown	Cushion	South Africa	King of Thailand
530.2	Cullinan I	White	Pear	South Africa	English Crown
407.48	Incomparable	Yellow brown	Triolette	Africa	For sale NY 1988
317.4	Cullinan II	White	Cushion	South Africa	English Crown
237.85	Centenary	White	Heart	South Africa	De Beers
245.35	Jubilee	White	Cushion	South Africa	Paul-Louis Weiller
234.5	De Beers	Light yellow	Cushion	South Africa	Sold in Geneva in 1982
205.07	Red Cross	Yellow	Square brill	South Africa	Sold in Geneva in 1973
200.87	Without Name	Yellow	Pear	-	Polished in NY
190	Darya-I-Nur	Light pink	Rectangular	India	Teheran
189.6	Orlov	Whitish	Rose	India	Kremlin Museum
184.5	Jacob-Victoria	White	Oval	South Africa	Nizam Hyderabad
183	Moon	Pale yellow	Round	South Africa	Sold in London in 1942
180.85	Without Name	Yellow	Broilette	-	-
170.49	Star of Peace	Yellow brown	Pear	-	Private Collection
160.18	Tablet of Islam	Black	Emerald	-	Diamond & Gem Corp.
152.16	Without Name	Slightly tinted	Old cut	South Africa	Tehran
151.91	Hope of Africa	Fancy yellow	Cushion	South Africa	Graff Di.London
150	Without Name	Yellow	Emerald	-	SIBA
141.23	Without Name	-	Pear	-	Private collection
140.5	Regent	Blue white	Cushion	India	Louvre-Paris
137.82	Paragon	White	Kite	Brazil	Graff Di.London
137.27	Florentine	Pale yellow	Double rose	India	Stolen
137.02	Premier Rose	White	Pear	South Africa	Sold in 1979
135.92	Queen of Holland	Blue white	Cushion	India	Sold in 1978
135.45	Without name	Cape	Cushion	South Africa	Teheran
135.03	Algeiba Star	Yellow	Old brill.	South Africa	Private collection
132.42	Golden Hue	Yellow	Cushion	South Africa	Sold In Geneva in 1983
130	Great Brazilian	White	-	Brazil	-
128.8	Star Of South	White	Oval	Brazil	Rustomjee Jamsetjee
128.51	Tiffany	Yellow	Cushion	South Africa	Tiffany NV
128.25	Niarchos	White	Pear	South Africa	Stavros Niarchos
127.02	Portuguese	White	Cushion	Brazil	Smithsonian
126.76	Light of peace	White	Pear	Sierra Leone	Private collection
125.35	Jonker	White	Emerald	South Africa	Private collection
123.93	Without name	Light white	Cushion	South Africa	Teheran
123	Stewart	Yellow	Brilliant	South Africa	-
116.6	Vainer Briolette	Yellow	Briolette	South Africa	Sultan of Brunei
115.06	Taj-I-Mah	White	Old cut	India	Teheran
115	Edna Star	White	Emerald	-	-
114.03	Without name	Yellow	Cushion	South Africa	H. Winston
111.59	Earth Star	Brown	Pear	South Africa	Private collection
107.46	Rojtman	Yellow	Cushion	South Africa	Stephen Zbova
107.1	Without name	Brown	Cushion	-	Private collection
107.07	Cartier	White	Pear	South Africa	Private collection
105.6	Koh-I-Noor	White	Oval	India	English Crown
105.54	Golden sun	Yellow	Emerald	-	Private collection
105.51	Star of Egypt	White	Emerald	India	Private collection
104.88	Deepdene	Yellow	Cushion	South Africa	Harry Winston
104.15	Chrysanthenum	-	Pear	South Africa	Julius Cohen