We're excited to announce, through our partnership with Urban Mapping, that we will be adding a new neighborhoods layer to the API. The neighborhoods include city areas such as the boroughs of New York City, city sub-regions like the Lower East Side, and smaller neighborhoods including Hell's Kitchen and Greenwich Village. The neighborhoods layer will show labels based on neighborhood hierarchy, showing larger sub-regional areas when zoomed out and smaller neighborhoods when zoomed in. The Urban Mapping neighborhoods cover all major metropolitan areas in the US and Canada, in addition to mid-sized urban areas.

For a sneak peek, here's a demo page with the neighborhoods layer (only in New York City). Full coverage and inclusion in API to come soon. Happy Thanksgiving!

We've been busy with a couple of projects (will post them when they are released), all involving use of the API. As a result, we've included a few more convenience functions and new place types.

• More PEvent methods to help with event handling as well as a new PEventListener object for tracking event handlers. It is advised that PEvent be used for event handling so that all events can be tracked in one place.
• New PUnload method for minimizing various browser memory leaks.
• New functions in PMap for enabling and disabling keyboard controls on the map.
• New place types for US School and Congressional Districts.