2011/11/7 - New Release (3.7) - editable shapes, DrawingManager, and more
Chris Broadfoot (Google Employee)
We recently released a new minor version of the Maps API. This means
that shortly, the versions of the Maps API will be:
3.7: Development/Nightly
3.8: Feature Stable
3.5: Frozen
3.4 will continue to exist for a short period of time, after which you
will receive 3.5 when requesting 3.4 or below.
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In this release, we've added:
* Editable shapes (polygons, polylines, circles, rectangles)
* DrawingManager for adding new overlays
* New visual style of default controls
* PlaceResult fields: website and international_phone_number
* ElevationResult field: resolution
See the blog post for details about the new drawing and editing functionality:
http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/11/make-your-map-interactive-with-shape.html
... and documentation:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/overlays.html#editable
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As noted previously, we recommend production applications specify a
minor version (e.g. 3.5, 3.6). Though, please take the time to test
your application against the nightly version (3.7) so that we can
rectify any issues that may surface during your testing. Please post
bugs to the issue tracker and/or post to the developer forum:
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues
http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3
To see more information about versioning of the Maps API, see documentation:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/basics.html#Versioning
The full changelog for the Maps API can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/wiki/JavascriptMapsAPIv3Changelog
Please direct discussion about this release to the developer forum:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_thread/thread/3d5072c41f4f502c
Thanks,
Chris