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Tue, 28 Oct 2008GMapEZ 2.5 fixes recent breakage

Google made changes to their API in the last day or so that caused GMapEZ maps to quit working, leaving just a logo where the map should be.

GMapEZ 2.5 fixes these problems. It also disables the mouse scroll wheel zoom feature by default -- you can turn that feature back on by including the word ScrollWheelZoom in your map div's class attribute.

If you're hosting the JavaScript yourself (which is recommended), just grab the new JavaScript file, put it on your server, and update your pages to point to gmapez-2.5.js.

Sun, 26 Aug 2007Hosting issues

For a few months this summer, my hosting company was charging me quite a bit extra every month for bandwidth overages. Due to series of poor decisions on my part, this problem didn't get fixed very quickly and resulted in an unexpected bill of hundreds of dollars, a precipitous shutdown of bluweb.com, and therefore the breakage of some sites that use GMapEZ.

The site has now been moved to n01se.net/gmapez, where it shall remain for the foreseeable future.

If you're using any online GMapEZ script, you'll need to change your <script> line to start with http://n01se.net/gmapez/ like this. If you're using your own copy of the JavaScript, you'll need download a new copy or change the imgBase to http://n01se.net/gmapez/.

Fortunately, the generous donations of GMapEZ users and ad revenue from the site have now completely covered the unexpected bill, and even provided a little more for some of my other hobbies.

Thanks to everyone for your patience, understanding, and support. The transition to n01se.net has not been perfectly smooth, so I really appreciate everyone's magnanimity. I want to again thank people who have donated money or helped out answering questions in the discussion group. It's good to see GMapEZ users depending on each other.

Wed, 14 Mar 2007GMapEZ 2.4 is the new default.

In celebration of Pi Day, I'm releasing GMapEZ version 2.4. This is now the default version for "gmapez-2.js".

Pages that haven't been updated since version 1 of GMapEZ have been broken since Google stopped supporting version 1 of their API. However as of this version, these older pages should be working again.

Otherwise, this version just has a couple minor features and some bug fixes. For more details, see the GMapEZ 2.4 release notes. Thanks to everyone for your continued use and support of GMapEZ, especially to those who have donated money or contributed helpful answers or code snippets in the discussion group.

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