Google Tech Talks February, 20 2008 ABSTRACT Cheryl Parker, founder of Urban Explorer, will present their patent-pending Flash-based “Local Portals” for the Google Mapping API. Urban Explorer’s “Local Portal” enhances the Google Map with both advanced GIS functionality and dynamically-served polygonal-based map layers. Flash-based map layers are dynamically served via an underlying MySQL database that features time series business, real estate and demographic data sets