GMaps.js allows you to use the potential of Google Maps in a simple way. No more extensive documentation or large amount of code.

Visit the examples in hpneo.github.com/gmaps

• Improve event binding at adding markers, polylines or polygons

• Add native events to google.maps objects and custom events to GMaps maps
• Check for Google Maps library and defined element when initialize
• Allow route origins to be a string or array

• Fix context menu position bug

• New feature: StreetView Panoramas

• New methods: removePolyline and removePolygon
• Tests for Styled MapTypes

• Test suite
• Fix double event firing bug

• Allow create context menus for markers

• Fix bug in getElevations
• Rename fitBounds to fitLatLngBounds

• Support for GeoJSON in drawPolygon
• Use 'complete' instead of 'always' in GMaps.geolocate

• New feature: Overlay Map Types

• Add full support to google.maps.PolylineOptions
• New method: removeMarker

• New feature: Map Types

• Support to add google.maps.Marker objects in addMarker and addMarkers methods.

• Add support for other HTML block elements instead "div" (like "section").

• Use MarkerClusterer to group markers

• Check if GMaps is defined before load extensions

• Fix bug with disableDefaultUI option in constructor

• Fix another bug in createMarker

• Fix bug in createMarker

• Adding IDs, classes and innerHTML to createControl. (Note: Use 'content' instead 'text' in createControl)

• Add support for Places library in addLayer

• Fix map events without MouseEvent object
• Fix bug in drawCircle and drawRectangle
• Fix bug in zoomIn and zoomOut
• New methods: removePolygon and removePolygons

• Add support to Panoramio in addLayer

• New method: toImage

• Extend the drawSteppedRoute and travelRoute functions

• New feature: Layers

• New method: removeRoutes
• Access all native methods of google.maps.Map class

• Support for multiple overlays

• Add support to all marker events
• Add suport for animations at show and remove overlays

• Create GMaps class only when Google Maps API is loaded

• New feature: Elevation service

• New method: getZoom

• Minor improvements to support Backbone.js
• Fix controls position

• More default values in GMaps constructor.

• Remove jQuery dependency.

• New method "removePolylines" and alias "cleanRoute"

• New methods: fitZoom and fitBounds

• New method: refresh

• New options in GMaps constructor: width and height

• New methods: loadFromFusionTables and loadFromKML

• New feature: KML and GeoRSS
• Fix bug in getFromFusionTables

• New feature: Fusion Tables

• New feature: Custom controls

• New feature: Static maps

• Better GMaps.Route methods

• Fix typo in Polyline events
• Add InfoWindow events

• Add Polyline events

• Add drag and dragstart events to Marker

• Add avoidHighways, avoidTolls, optimizeWaypoints, unitSystem and waypoints options in getRoutes
• New method: createMarker

• geolocation and geocode methods are static now (using them with GMaps.geolocation and GMaps.geocode)

• Fix typo in geocode method
• Allow all MapOptions in constructor (see 'MapOptions' section in Google Maps API Reference)

• Add pane option ('floatPane', 'floatShadow', 'mapPane', 'overlayImage', 'overlayLayer', 'overlayMouseTarget', 'overlayShadow') in drawOverlay
• New methods: removeOverlay and removeOverlays

• Change pane ('floatPane' to 'overlayLayer') in drawOverlay

• Fix bug in drawCircle

• New feature: Overlays
• New method: drawCircle

• Bug fix: zoomIn/zoomOut can change zoom by argument
• New method: setZoom

• New class: GMaps.Route

• New feature: Geofence (with markers)
• New method: drawPolygon
• Bug fix: Change reserved word in Context menu

• New feature: Geocoding
• New method: drawSteppedRoute (similar to travelRoute)

• New events in addMarker
• Add step_number property in travelRoute method

• New feature: Context menu (for map and marker only)
• New method: travelRoute
• Change setCenter to panTo in GMaps setCenter method
• Save entire route data in routes array (instead saving only route path)
• Context menu and Route example (using travelRoute)

• drawPolyline can accept both an array of LatLng objets or an array of coordinates
• New methods: getRoutes and drawRoute
• Route example

• Rename drawRoute method to drawPolyline (more accurate)
• Marker example

• Map events
• Geolocation
• Add Markers
• Marker infoWindows
• Draw routes and circles
• Initial examples

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