Google Earth API Release Notes
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See the
Google Earth Release Notes
section of the Google Earth Help Center
for desktop client release notes.
November 18, 2009
Google Earth Plug-in, version 5.1.3533.1731 (Windows, Mac)
- The Google Earth Plug-in is now available as part of the Google Earth desktop client installer
on Mac, as well as Windows.
- The Google Earth Plug-in installer for Mac has been split into Intel-only and Universal
versions. End users will be automatically directed to the correct installer for their
computer architecture.
- (Issue 131)
Icon headings should now behave as expected, and consistent with the Google Earth desktop client.
- (Issue 270)
KmlFeature.getKml can now return arbitrarily long KML strings.
- (Issue 329)
Fixed a bug where placemark label visibility was unpredictable when using region fade extents.
- (KML Issue 310)
Fixed a bug where placemarks in region-based network link structures blinked on camera zoom.
- Enterprise customers: Default layer visibility is now properly honored for alternate databases.
- Enterprise customers: HTTPS is now fully supported.
September 22, 2009
Google Earth Plug-in, version 5.1.3509.4636 (Windows, Mac)
- (Issue 331)
Fixed a bug that caused KML content fetches to fail for slow connections and very large files.
September 9, 2009
Google Earth Plug-in, version 5.1.3506.3999 (Windows, Mac)
- The Google Earth Plug-in is now available as part of the Google Earth desktop client installer
on Windows.
- Startup time is significantly improved, especially for users that load Earth API sites multiple times.
- Overall plugin performance has been improved; see the
Google Earth Release Notes
for more details.
- Earth API performance on Windows is significantly improved.
- (Issue 59)
Fixed a bug that caused placemarks in interval and view-based refresh network links to be duplicated
upon user interaction.
- (Issue 233)
Features should now be completely removed after their containers are removed.
- (Issue 108)
The Google Earth Plug-in should now respect browser focus and blur on Windows and
GEWindow.focus and GEWindow.blur now behave as expected. Note that this
bug is still present on Mac.
- (Issue 131)
Icon headings should now behave as expected, and consistent with the Google Earth desktop client.
- (Issue 147)
Fixed a bug where certain KML features would not appear in the plugin view until
the user moused over the plugin window.
- (Issue 139)
Implemented a workaround for a layout bug in Internet Explorer 7 and 8 that caused
improperly sized balloons.
- (Issue 95)
Google Earth layers such as
LAYER_BORDERS should no longer prevent
mouse events from being triggered.
- (Issue 310)
The navigation control should now behave correctly when set to
VISIBILITY_AUTO
and positioned at a non-default location.
Google Earth API, version 1.003
- Added
GETourPlayer.getCurrentTime and GETourPlayer.setCurrentTime.
- Added
GETourPlayer.getDuration.
- Added
google.earth.executeBatch for batching Earth API calls.
- Added
KmlListStyle.getListItemType.
- (Issue 253)
Added
KmlObject.release to invoke JavaScript garbage collection and allow reuse of object IDs.
- (Issue 133)
Added
KmlFeature.getOpacity (experimental) and KmlFeature.setOpacity (experimental).
June 30, 2009
Google Earth API Update
- Internet Explorer 8 is now officially supported.
June 23, 2009
Google Earth Plug-in, version 5.0.11738.1858 (Windows, Mac)
- (Issue 188)
Fixed event handler and
google.earth.fetchKml related bugs in
Internet Explorer 8.
- Fixed balloon related bugs in Internet Explorer 8.
Note: Internet Explorer 8 support will be reenabled
in the next few days. Developers can test their Earth API sites for IE8 compatibility by
appending #geplugin_browserok to the URL.
Google Earth API Update
- Improved internal HTML DOM structure for better DOCTYPE support, resulting in layout
improvements in Internet Explorer 6.
May 27, 2009
Google Earth Plug-in, version 5.0.11737.2027 (Windows, Mac)
- Fixed a bug where mouse event handling temporarily broke if the camera was programmatically
changed during user interaction (such as panning).
- Balloon positions are now more properly updated during camera movement.
- OpenGL performance has been improved.
- 3D building performance has been improved.
- (KML Issue 242)
LOD calculation is now correct for non-square regions.
- (Issue 119)
GEPlugin.parseKml now supports Unicode strings.
March 31, 2009
Google Earth Plug-in, version 5.0.11655.6079 (Windows, Mac)
- The ocean surface and underwater terrain are now visible.
- (Issue 7)
KML containing time primitives (
<TimeStamp> and <TimeSpan>)
content will now invoke the time slider UI upon being loaded into the plugin.
- (Issue 75)
GEPlugin.parseKml now accepts arbitrarily long KML strings.
- (Issue 99)
Sunlight and nighttime now appear at their real-time positions when turned on using
the
GESun interface.
- (Issue 118)
16-bit PNG images are now rendered properly on both Windows and Mac.
- (Issue 148)
GEView.copyAsLookAt now returns the expected heading value in all cases.
Google Earth API, version 1.002
- (Issue 43)
Added
GEPhotoOverlayViewer and KmlPhotoOverlay for
programmatically entering and exiting photo overlays.
- (Issue 180)
Added
GETourPlayer and KmlTour for programmatic
tour playback.
- (Issue 47)
Added
LAYER_BUILDINGS_LOW_RESOLUTION for enabling or disabling
the gray buildings layer.
- (Issue 42)
Added
GEView.getViewportGlobeBounds for querying the current
viewport's bounding box.
- (Issue 10)
Added
viewchangebegin, viewchange, and viewchangeend
events to the GEView interface.
- (Issue 49)
Added
GEView.hitTest for querying information about a given
screen point inside the plugin viewport.
- (Issue 27)
Added
GEPlugin.getStreamingPercent for querying the terrain and imagery
streaming progress.
- (Issue 181)
The Google Earth API can now connect to the Mars database
(
http://khmdb.google.com/?db=mars) via the database parameter in
google.earth.createInstance.
- (Issue 74)
The Google Earth API can now connect to
Google Earth Server instances
via the database parameter in
google.earth.createInstance.
Contact Google Earth Enterprise support for more details.
- Added the
ALTITUDE_RELATIVE_TO_SEA_FLOOR and ALTITUDE_CLAMP_TO_SEA_FLOOR
altitude modes.
Google Earth API Update
- Support for Internet Explorer 8 was temporarily disabled due to an issue with
google.earth.fetchKml in that browser. We are working to enable
full support for Internet Explorer 8 as soon as possible.
February 19, 2009
Google Earth API Update
January 16, 2009
Google Earth API Update
- A fix for (Issue 141)
was reverted due to various browser compatibility issues. The bug is currently open
and a workaround has been posted in the comments.
December 19, 2008
Google Earth Plug-in, version 4.3.11528.8566 (Windows, Mac)
- The Google Earth Plug-in for Mac installation package is now ~38% smaller in size (29.1 MB).
- The Google Earth Plug-in for Mac Uninstaller is now bundled with the installation package.
- Added a note about the use of Google Software Update in the Google Earth Plug-in for Mac installation package.
- Fixed a crash related to 3D buildings.
- (Issue 113)
Fixed a bug that caused placemark labels to rotate with icons when the icons had a heading.
- (Issue 107)
Fixed a bug that caused placemarks to be unclickable if their icon had a non-centered hotSpot.
- (Issue 109)
Fixed a bug that caused
frameend events to be fired persistently on Mac.
- (Issue 114)
Fixed a bug that caused higher than normal system resource utilization.
December 4, 2008
Google Earth Plug-in Installation Update (Mac)
December 3, 2008
Google Earth Plug-in, version 4.3.11498.3261 (Windows, Mac)
- Launch of the Google Earth Browser Plug-in for Mac OS X
- Startup time on Windows has been improved.
- KML/KMZ parsing and rendering speed has been improved.
- XML Namespaces are now supported during KML parsing.
- (Issue 66)
Polygons and line strings are now interactive and mouse events on these
geometries can now be listened to using
google.earth.addEventListener.
- (Issue 76)
Fixed a bug that caused a 'Could not create folder' error message upon plugin
instantiation if there were spaces in the logged in user's username.
- (Issue 59)
Fixed a bug that caused placemarks in interval-refresh Network Links to be
duplicated upon user interaction.
November 13, 2008
Google Earth Plug-in, version 4.3.9685.8774 (Windows)
- Fixed a bug that caused sky mode imagery to disappear.
November 4, 2008
Google Earth API Update
- In Internet Explorer, there is no longer a 'Line: 128, Unspecified error' message upon browser close
with Script Debugging turned on.
October 17, 2008
Google Earth API Update
- Earth plugin instances no longer crash when the container DOM node or its ancestors are hidden.
- The 'Loading' spinner animation now uses cleaner CSS, preventing conflicts with page stylesheets.
Previous Releases
Google Earth Plug-in, version 4.3.9684.6498 (Windows)
- In Internet Explorer, the Google Earth Plug-in no longer crashes the browser upon page refresh or browser close.
Google Earth Plug-in, version 4.3.9679.1761 (Windows)
- The Google Earth Plug-in now uses
NPAPI on Firefox instead of XPCom.
- Browser restart is no longer required after installing the plugin.
- The 'Loading...' message has been replaced in favor of a vertically and horizontally centered animated 'loading' icon.
Google Earth Plug-in, version 4.3.9597.9390 (Windows)
This document describes the additions and changes in version 4.3.9597.9390 of the Google Earth Plug-in and API:
- Under VMWare, when using DirectX, Google Earth Plug-in now loads and CPU utilization is improved.
- Firefox, version 3.1 alpha is now supported.
- Maps API integration with the Google Earth API was not working with Internet Explorer, version 6. It now works in all supported browsers.
- LinearRing coordinate count is reported correctly.
- Google Earth Plug-in works with Windows 2000 operating system.
- When you CTRL-Left click on a polygon, the pop-up menu no longer appears.
- The Maps API example's placemark balloon stays open when you click on it.
- Mouse-up and Click events are correctly triggered when over the plug-in window.
- Mouse events now occur during fly-to.
- The Google Earth Plug-in error page displays properly in Internet Explorer, version 6.x.
- The Google Earth Plug-in no longer closes and opens a new process when refreshed if video drivers are not loaded.
- The Google Earth Plug-in uses OpenGL mode when DirectX initialization fails.
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