Nokia New Years Eve

The project was built in AS 2.0 and involved tight collaboration with .net services that exposed information about map locations and user image uploads as xml data. A clustering algorithm on the back end allowed us to present 'mega' pushpins where the pins would otherwise be too tightly concentrated, giving a more elegant, clean feel to the map data.

At the time the project was built no flash API existed for Windows Live / Bing maps. I reverse engineered the Windows Live / Bing maps JavaScript API relating to loading map tiles and Mercator projection in order to display pixel accurate maps. You can read about the map tile system here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb259689.aspx

The site also featured integrated mobile phone downloads where users could enter their cell phone numbers and get ring tones and background images.

The project had a fixed deadline with little room to move on features. To help produce the site on time, I hired and managed a team of flash developers. The site was divided up into modules to allow different developers to handle separate tasks more easily.

This was a very successful project for Microsoft and helped pave the way for the creation of a Branded Entertainment projects team in London of which I was a key player, for big projects like this one.

Screenshots

Map View

City concert details view

Map cluster view with one cluster selected