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Getting Started with the Maps API Version 1

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GSAnimator
A general purpose animation class.
 
GSBounds
Represents a 2-dimensional bounding box. If a GSBounds instance is in the NZMG coordinate system the minimum coordinate represents the bottom left corner of the bounding box as the value of the y axis increases from bottom to top.
 
GSBrowser
Provides a namespace for properties related to the user browser, version, and host platform.
 
GSControl
A control that belongs to a map.
 
GSDimension
Encapulates the width and height of a component (in integer precision) in a single object
 
GSEventManager
GSEventManager provides an interface for managing the registration of event handlers for DOM objects.
 
GSIcon
Specifies the images that are used to represent a feature on the map. The way in which the icon is created is dependent upon the icon image's file type. For example PNG images with alpha transparency will use the AlphaImageLoader filter on Internet Explorer to ensure transparency is handled correctly.
 
GSIconFactory
GSIconFactory is a convenience class that creates new icon instances by cloning prototypical icon instances it has been initialized with. Use the icon factory when an application has a larger number of icons that may be instantiated.
 
GSLayer
GSLayer objects are used to work with collections of features. Layers allow all features owned by the layer to be added, removed, or updated collectively.
 
GSMap
GSMap encapsuates functionality for map creation, management of map feature layers, and map navigation.
 
GSMouseWheel
Encapsulates browser differences in mouse wheel event handling.
 
GSPoint
A coordinate that may be used to specify either a pixel coordinate in the map image's coordinate space or a real world coordinate expressed as an NZMG point.
 
GSPointFeature
GSPointFeature represents a point of interest (POI) feature.
 
GSRasterImageFeature
Represents a raster image feature.
 
GSUtil
A utility class containing functions for common operations.