are all the > features of v2 now in v3? Can you think of anything that isn't in v3?
Hi Mike. I just changed over to v3. My map is pretty feature-heavy, imo (http://www.xelawho.com/map/) but the whole process was a lot less painful than I had been anticipating. What helped was that lots of the real google maps guns changed over years ago, so the few workarounds that were needed were easily found on the v3 forum. Another thing that helped was that my v2 map was based on some of Mike's tutorials (http://econym.org.uk/gmap/index.htm) which Larry has kindly translated to v3-speak (http://www.geocodezip.com/). Being that my original map got pieced together bit by bit, it was also a good opportunity to reassess the code and get rid of alot of the chaff that didn't really need to be there. So, those were the good bits. In terms of features, as far as I can tell, all the major ones are supported. The ones that I missed were the dedicated GDownloadUrl (which is basically just an AJAX request, so no biggie there) and tabbed infowindows. My page uses jQuery anyway, so I ended up going with jQuery tabs for that, but there are other non-jQuery tab functions that you can google easily enough. Apart from that, there was a bit of nomenclature - no more Geverything, now its all google.maps.everything. Some of the native polyline and polygon methods - such as getLength() and getArea() - are now in the geometry library (under different names), which you have to bootstrap as you load the API if you are going to use it. How tough it's going to be really depends on which features you use and how your map is currently set up - the best thing to do is have a look in the v3 documentation to see if what you need is there and if it isn't, search on the v3 forum to see if someone has come up with something similar. good luck! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" 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?hl=en.
