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Update of the SDK, with several improvment

* Already present in the latest version, but not yet announced here:
- Architecture rework, with the ability to display the map on a different canvas (not only his own canvas)
- Marker can have their own Style (MarkerStyle) shared between several markers. Note that by default, you still can use the old mode and change the
colors and pins attribute on the Marker, because the default style use
them directly.

* Several simplification: everything related to “typeSat”, “isSat”, and so on: satelite is just treated as a map like others. So to display YahooSat just do MyMap.setMap(”YahooSat”);

* The numSat is dropped too, as the list of mapping provider is dynamic. See belo, use setMap using a name if this sat is in listOfMap or setMap(MapOverlay) .

* Ask.com has been removed from the default map (they now use Microsoft maps).

* OpenStreetMap has been added in the list of default map provider.

* The “generic layer” support new quadtree URL

These should be minor changes from the external point of view, just by removing a few vars in your creation but this should clarify the usability.

Other improvment:
- the ressampled mode is much better
- cached map reactivation. You can put map in your jar file, or in the file system. A tutorial on this later.

The samples has been updated to reflect this. As usual, you can go to the J2memap web site to dowanload it…