What is More Interesting than Another Google Earth Release?

Written by Chad on April 15th, 2008

Integration of the CloudAmber “Google Like” popups for advanced visual display of information in popups
- Resulting improvements throughout all popup code, including autosizing popups to the content they contain.
Improved panning of commercial layers like Google Maps and Yahoo! Maps
Animated panning of the map, using OpenLayers.Tween support
Layer Image transitions, for keeping images visible when zooming to allow smoother transitions
Client side reprojection support using built in transformations for spherical mercator, or the proj4js library for other projections.
- Support for reprojecting vector data layers
- Support for reprojecting user-facing controls like mouseposition
- Support for programatically reprojecting points and geometries
Improved OpenLayers Styling, including:
- OpenLayers.Style, OpenLayers.StyleMap, OpenLayers.Rule support for improved feature-attribute based styling
- SLD read/write support
Support for reading and writing multiple versions of WMC.
Improved KML support, including KML styling support.
Improved GeoRSS Format support, including GeoRSS GML read support.
New ScaleLine Control for displaying visual scale
New NavigationHistory control for map history navigation
Localization/Better Internationalization support
Layer support for MapGuide Open Source
A number of new / improved handlers to make handling user interactions easier

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