The primary goal of the gmaps-2.0 release is to support D6, but it will contain essential developments, from the view of later releases, and a few new improvement, too.
Planned release date: 30. april 2009.
Planned developments
- Administration, settings
- Much more clear settings pages. Automatic file moving when path changes (batch) - Almost done
- Length handling
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- Configurable units, form elements, parser and formatter functions - Done
- "Goodies": Length converter page and block - Done
- Icon management
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- Default icons.
- Custom icons: 1:1 mapping of the GIcon class - Done
- Complete MapIconMaker interation: Marker, Labeled marker, Flat
- New operations: clone (copy), reset to defaults - Partially done
- Maps
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- Simplified, one step creation.
- Default maps.
- New operations: clone (copy), reset to defaults
- Content path: automatic route generation between markers in the order they were added.
- Static maps
- Implementation as independently manageable unit, like "Maps".
- Geocoding
- Geocoding and reverse geocoding functionality to all address and/or coordinate enabled form elements.
- Address handling
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- Changeable subfield labels - Done
- Ability to hide unused subfields - Partially done
- CCK fields
- Administrable field formatters
- Other developments:
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- Advanced help support - Pending
- Throttle support - Pending
- Clint-side code rewrite:
- Objects
- Drupal.behaviors
- Implementing lazy, multithreaded init
Planned features NOT implemented in release 2.0::
- Taxonomy icons: node icons by taxonomy, optionally Taxonomy Image support, co-operation.
- Icon libraries: mass icon upload, download.
- Full Maps API support: GPolyline, GPolygon, other items...
- Address management: central administration interface to repair, manage addresses.
- Location taxonomy integration with taxonomy.
- Static map views.
- Full page maps.