TrailBlaze

I'm very excited to be able to talk to you about our next major Flex / Drupal application that is coming soon. TrailBlaze is going to be a best in class trail discovery and planning tool that will be like a hiking, biking, running etc route planner on steroids! Some of the features will include:

• Ability to upload and view GPX routes on google maps
• Ability to plan and plot routes directly on google maps
• Various google maps features (location finder, trail markers, etc)
• Ability to attach notes to route markers
• Ability to attach pictures and video onto trails you upload and share!
• Ability to plan routes with friends and/or groups
• Search by location / proximity etc.
• View your trails, recent community uploaded trails, most popular, most hiked, etc
• Utilities such as pedometer / odometer for planned routes / uploaded tracks, calories burned by activity, etc

I was excited to see that Flash 10 came out recently, and I targeted my first build using the Flex 3.2 sdk today. Specifically to get access to the new filereference methods (load, data, etc) since you can now access the local files with Flex/Flash. This is great news since it will really smooth the development process for our GPS based TrailBlaze application that's coming out soon.