This is wonderful news. Kudos to the team at Google for pushing this through the legal team and for the accomplishment on the engineering side. There is much work to be done, certainly, but this is a big step forward which will benefit many developers.
On the subject of remaining work, I wish that I were able to drop everything and start testing this immediately. There are two factors that give me pause. The first is a specific request -- support for editable lines and polygons [1] -- which is a critical personal priority. The second is a more general realization that Flash will likely lag behind Javascript for the foreseeable future. Aggressive projects in AIR have three choices: embrace the limited functionality of the Flash API, use the Javascript through <mx:HTML>, or use an alternate vendor. While the second choice requires some 'creativity' in deployment and might violate the letter of the ToS [2], it offers much richer capabilities. I cannot tell if this usage model has been explicitly considered. But those misgivings can wait for another day. For today my thoughts may be condensed to a single word, 'Thanks'. [1] http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=379 [2] I cannot say either way. On Nov 18, 7:36 pm, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi developers- > > We've released 1.8, and you can download it from the documentation > now. The big feature in this release is support for use of the API in > AIR applications. Read the blog post > here:http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-maps-api-for-f... > > The list of issues fixed/fulfilled are > here:http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list?can=1&q=Fixed:1.8 > > A full changelog will be available tomorrow. > > Enjoy, and please post regression bugs (or demos :). > > - pamela --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
