Some accompanying screenshots: http://www.marijnspeelman.nl/maps/

On Nov 19, 10:42 am, Marijn <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Animate panning and zooming transitions in capable browsers.
>
> This feature causes a lot of zooming bugs and is in general very
> quirky:
>  - The animation is way too slow
>  - When quickly zooming in, the map is first shown very small and
> slowly starts matching the div size
>  - When zooming in 1 zoom level, the map first redraws / blinks, and
> then zooms in
>  - When zooming in or out, our custom markers first zoom with the map,
> instead of staying the same size and just repositioning.
>
> Tested in Chrome 4.0.249.0 & Firefox 3.5.6 on Ubuntu, and in Safari on
> Mac.
>
> On Nov 19, 10:17 am, Ben Appleton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > We just released a new version of the JS v3 API.
>
> > Changes:
>
> >  * Enable Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew.  If you are a fluent in one of
> > these languages, please let us know if you see layout or translation
> > issues.
>
> >  * Animate panning and zooming transitions in capable browsers.
>
> >  * Expose a panToBounds method on Map.  This will pan the map to make
> > a particular LatLngBounds visible.
>
> >  * Enable position as an additional control option.  The
> > google.maps.ControlPosition enum defines the possible positions as
> > TOP_LEFT, TOP, TOP_RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, BOTTOM_LEFT, BOTTOM,
> > BOTTOM_RIGHT.  For example:
>
> >     var myOptions = {
> >       zoom: 8,
> >       center: new google.maps.LatLng(-34.397, 150.644),
> >       mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
> >       scaleControl: true,
> >       scaleControlOptions: {position: google.maps.ControlPosition.RIGHT}
> >     }
> >     map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), 
> > myOptions);
>
> >  * On zoom, set tiles transparent immediately to avoid seeing the
> > previous image on the screen in some browsers.
>
> > If there are no major issues, we'll post a full announcement of this
> > release in the next 24-48 hours.  In the meantime, please report any
> > regression issues you see in the discussion group.
>
> > Thanks!
> > Ben

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