urbanmapz

I inherited the actionscript component of this project in October 2008. The site was already live but in need of some love to allow easy extension in order to satisfy the ambitious ideas of the site’s owners.

Urban Mapz is your comprehensive one stop guide to the high streets and shopping centres, helping you to get the most from your retail and leisure experience. Featuring fully colour-coded maps, you can search for stores and services directly, through categories or browse to their specific location on a high street.

After some analysis it became evident that the code needed to be re-factored in a more loosely coupled way, using PureMVC as the framework facilitated this transition. Now the flash component of the site is able to take advantage of the completely re-factored code; updating is easy, new features can be added with a minimum of disruption, the code is ‘open for extension’ and ‘closed for modification’.