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 Go to the API Documentation hpneo.github.io/gmaps/documentation.html
- Add a reference to Google Maps API
- Add gmaps.js in your HTML
- Enjoy!
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=true"></script>
<script src="gmaps.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
#map {
width: 400px;
height: 400px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="map"></div>
<script>
var map = new GMaps({
el: '#map',
lat: -12.043333,
lng: -77.028333
});
</script>
</body>
</html>If you would like to build gmaps from source run the following at the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/HPNeo/gmaps.git
cd gmaps
npm install
grunt- Remove the http so the library (Google Maps call) will also work under SSL without warnings
- Update route drawing methods to allow 'icons' option for drawPolyline
- Remove dependency on 'grunt-cli' having to be installed globally
- Fix removeMarkers
- Add overlay to mouseTarget when click event is set
- addControl/createControl now accepts HTML elements or HTML strings
- Add containsLatLng to google.maps.Circle
- Fix bug in drawPolygon
- Hide context menu before the zoom is changed
- Allow unitSystem setting in travelRoute
- Add functionality to remove controls
- Delegates non custom events to google.map
- Convert featureType and elementType toLowerCase in static maps
- Adds ability to listen for clicks on overlays
- Add RadarSearch to the places layer
- Update default control styles to match new Google Maps release.
- Fix and optimize removeMarkers
- Fix bug in addMarker (issue #270)
- Add UMD support (AMD, CommonJS, browser globals)
- Add retina support
- FitZoom only use visible markers
- Fix getRoutes
- Add callback for failure in getRoutes
- Update marker clusterer after remove marker
- Add support for string arrays to arrayToLatLng
- Allow initialising GMaps without new
- Added styled map support for static maps
- Fixed name display for styled maps
- Allow no zoom for static map request
- Fix IE8 bug using array_map
- Add Grunt and Bower support
- Fix buildContextMenu reference in addMarker
- Fix removePolylines and removePolygons
- Fix drawSteppedRoute
- Fix fitZoom
- Split gmaps.js in modules
- Enable new Google Maps style
- Add support for context menu in multiple maps
- Fix destination as address in getRoutes
- Support for removing Fusion Tables and GeoRSS/KML layers with removeLayer
- 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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