Markers with Circles showing up randomly

[Harvey-Mushman]

The problems I'm having might be related to each other so I posted my question on Stackoverflow as requested. Here is the link: Stackoverflow Sample

As far as the bug I would like to document, I load a ng-map with markers from a JSON array. Once displayed, I decide to remove them. At this point the map background gets blown away and changes to a light blue color. No streets, information of any kind. It is like I was looking at a very blue ocean... I try to zoom out thinking maybe I really am looking at the ocean but no change.

The ng-map element has the directive zoom-to-include-markers="auto" included. Without this directive or if set to false, the problem does not exist. It only happens when all the markers = {}.

Here is a link to my Plnkr but keep in mind, I have commented out the zoom directive because I'm trying to solve the problem that causes random or inconsistent CIRCLE placements. This issue is described in the Stackoverload posting above.

Thank you in advance for any help you want to offer.

[allenhwkim]

I m bit too late, but the example has too much to read in it. can you make it a minimal example?