amCharts & amMap blog

We just released new version of amMap 2.5.5 [Download]

Here’s the scoop of what’s new":

* FEATURE: "link_with" attribute now works with lines also.

* FEATURE: "active" attribute for <labels>. Set it to "false"
  and it will not take hover focus from the underlying objects.

* BUG FIX: clicking on a movie contained within area caused that
  area’s color to be reset to default one.

* BUG FIX: fixed bug in negative area value handling.

* BUG FIX: <background><stretch> settings was being ignored.

* BUG FIX: fixed bug in hover colors on areas linked with a movie.

* BUG FIX: undefined areas now don’t display hand cursor when
  rolled over.

* BUG FIX: lines now don’t display hand cursor unless they’re
  clickable.

* NEW MAPS: Bhutan, Dominican Republic, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan,
  Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

* UPDATED MAPS: India (map), Japan (map and data)

* SAMPLE: added "wrold_with_antarctica" sample/data file

We just added a new map to our Premium Map Pack: World map with US states.

As usually it can be downloaded by all commercial amMap license holders from our customer download area.

We have just updated our Premium Map Pack with two new maps. By popular demand we included versions of our Premium World and World with Antarctica maps which display Russia as a single area.

Be sure to download Premium Map Pack from our customer download area.

This one includes three additional versions of the high quality Continents map:

World Regions (includes Middle East and Central America regions)

Continents maps with all of the Russia attributed to either Europe or Asia

As usualy head over to our customer area to download.

We’re excitied to announce that new version of our Premium Map Pack 2.1 has been released which includes additional continents and logical groups. Here’s the full list of maps included in the pack:

• World map
• World map witgh Antarctica
• North America
• Central America
• South America
• Caribbean
• Europe
• Asia
• Middle East
• Africa
• Oceania

Premium Map Pack is available as a free download for all owners of commercial amMap licenses. Just login into our customer area to download.

What is it?

We’re extremely happy to announce a new addition to our offerings – Premium Map Pack. It is a result of months of scrupulous work. There are two main aspects that set maps from the new pack apart:

1. Increased level of detail. We took extreme care of making those maps as accurate and as detailed as possible. Coastlines, pennisulas, fjords, borders, are now presented in greater detail and accuracy.
2. Number of countries. World map now includes even more countries, territories and even tiny island nations. All in all 252 areas are represented!

Current version of the Premium Map Pack includes four maps:

• World
• World with Antarctica
• World in Continents
• Europe

We will be adding the rest of the continens over the course of the coming weeks and possibly even other interesting maps in the future.

Check out a couple of sample strips from the Premium World map: Europe and America.

Availability

As a thank you for our commercial license buyers we’re releasing Premium Map Pack as a free download for them. So if you own any amMap 2 license (including single-site) just head to our customers’ download area. (use your email you entered when ordering amMap and order reference id to login).

If you do not own a commercial license, now would be a perfect time to acquire one. The licenses start at 85EUR.

UPDATE: Premium Map Pack 2.1 now includes all main continents (North and South Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania) plus several logical groups (Central America, Middle East, Caribbean)

We have just released a new version amMap 2.5.4 [Download] with the whole slew of new features, enhancements and fixes:

• FEATURE: new <movie> attribute: active [true] (true/false)
  If set to "false" the movie will be invisible to mouse events (hover, click, etc.) even if behavior associated with it is set – the mouse will rather interact with underlying map. This feature will allow you to create map overlays that do not interfear with the map functionality.
• FEATURE: you can now instruct amMap to preserve the original color of the area like it is set in the map SWF. Set <area><preserve_color> to "true" if you want to preserve color of all the areas. To preserve the color for individual areas you can set "preserve_color" attribute in the <area> tag in your data.
• FEATURE: lines can now display rollover balloon. 

  Additional parameters for <line> data tag: 

  - balloon [true] (true/flase): whether to display balloon on rollover or not. 
  - title [text] (): line title

  Additional related settings: 

  - <line><balloon_text> [] ({title}): You can set any text here. Special code {title} will be replaced with whatever there is in <line>’s "title" attribute.

• FEATURE: new setting <hover_focus>: 
  <movie><hover_focus> [false] (true/false)
  <line><hover_focus> [false] (true/false)
  <label><hover_focus> [false] (true/false) 

  If set to true hovered movie/line/label will be brought in front of other movies/lines/labels.

• FEATURE: new setting <area><color_no_value> [] (color hex code)
  If set all areas that do not have value attribute will be painted in this color. But only if other overriding color options are not set. I.e. color attribute in <area>, or <preserve_color> setting.
• TWEAK: amMap now supports areas with negative values correctly.
• BUG FIX: map enlargement was not functioning properly with redraw=true, again :)
• BUG FIX: setData and timeline slide transitions were leaving some leftover area data if some areas were missing in the new data. This is now corrected with one downside: you have to have <color_unlisted> set in your settings file, because otherwise the area will be left colored the way it was before setData/slide.
• NEW MAP: Costa Rica

We just released amMap 2.5.3 [Download]

Changes:

• FEATURE: new setting <zoom><grid_click_enabled>
    If set to true clicks anywhere on zoom control’s grid will zoom
    to that level rather then register as click on a map simmilar
    to Google Maps (this is the default behavior from now on)
• FEATURE: if <line> has "hover_color" property it will now generate
    rollover and click events like movies/areas and will invoke
    amRegisterHover(map_id, oid) and amRegisterClick(map_id, oid)
    JavaScript functions respectively.
• BUG FIX: timeline now correctly passes "map_id" parameter to
    amMap which in turn correctly returns it with event functions.

We’ve just updated our packages to include 19 additional country maps: [Download]

• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Georgia (also with South Ossetia)
• Jamaica
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Malaysia
• Mongolia
• Oman
• Qatar
• South Korea
• St. Lucia
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• United Arab Emirates
• Uzbekistan
• Yemen

New maps were added to amMap package:

• Bosnia 1
• Bosnia 2
• France departments
• Israel
• Israel with Palestine
• Japan Mercator projection
• Nicaragua Mercator projection
• Norway
• Palestine
• South Africa
• Turkey