ANNOUNCE: osm-gps-map 0.7.3

[John Stowers <john stowers gmail com>]

Hi Everyone,

I am pleased to announce version 0.7.3 of osm-gps-map, a library,
python and GObject introspection bindings for displaying raster map
data from a variety of different sources.

This is a bug fix release.

Where to Get It
============
Homepage:
 * http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/
Downloads:
 * http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/files/osm-gps-map/osm-gps-map-0.7.3.tar.gz
 * http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/files/osm-gps-map/python-osmgpsmap-0.7.3.tar.gz
Documentation:
 * http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/docs/reference/html/index.html

What is New
============
  * When using the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in, centre on the mouse pointer
    (as recommended by the HIG)
  * Doc updates
  * Bug fixes
    * Treat 403 errors as missing tiles
    * Bail if user queues too many tiles to download (DOS)
    * Limit retries of tile download on unspecified errors
    * Enforce gtk+-2.14 minimum
    * Fix Google

What Is It
============
osm-gps-map is a Gtk+ widget (plus Python and GObject introspection
bindings) for displaying information on a map. It features a simple
API for displaying tracks and points from GPS co-ordinates.

It Currently supports a number of different mapping sources;

 * openstreetmap (default)
 * maps-for-free
 * satellite maps from a number of proprietary providers

It also has the following features;

 * Excellent performance
 * Intelligent caching of maps, including the ability to request a
  specific area of the map to be cached ahead of time
 * Recording of points of interest on the map (and the ability to
  add arbitary pixmaps at those points
 * Drawing and management of multiple GPS track (a line
  showing the history past added points)
 * Automatic centering on new GPS points
 * Adjustable Zoom
 * Includes comprehensive examples (C, Python, JavaScript)
 * Simple, flat API
 * Support for showing additional display layers rendered
  on top of the map
 * Optional on screen display (OSD)

John Stowers