Erik Fantasia

With Map My Posts, you can easily create maps plotting the location of your posts, based upon your existing tags or categories.
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<li>3 map types available: Google Maps, Google Static Maps (PNG image), and Geochart Visualizations.</li>
<li>Embed maps on any page using the shortcodes [mmp-map], [mmp-staticmap], and [mmp-geochart]</li>
<li>Associate with a country or any specific map location.</li>
<li>Map My Posts uses existing category or tag names to help define country associations.</li>
<li>Widgets available to display maps in the sidebar.</li>
<li>Full control over size, colors, and click functions.</li>
<li>Perfect for travel bloggers, touring musicians, or anyone else that wants to Map My Posts!</li>
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Please leave a message on <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/map-my-posts" rel="ugc">the wordpress.org support forum for Map My Posts</a>

Map My Posts

Less is more. Light is better. You original idea is awesome. Keep going ! These updates would be appreciate : 
- an update to use the new Google Map API,
- make it 100% WPML compatible (join translated locations using shortcode static map)
- be able to add our own custom taxonomy from the dashboard 

Your original idea is awesome

Map My Posts allows you to display a Google Map or Geochart visualization, associating map locations with your existing categories or tags.

prakash.m

Power your site with this WordPress-integrated map making & location management system possessing mapping tools to create store locators, store finders, and other location address maps. Manage and display a few or thousands of your important stores, points of interest, or product locations anywhere on Earth using Google Maps. 
Its strength is best seen in its flexibility to allow you to easily manage any number of locations from your WordPress admin interface and the several addons featuring top-level features that are available to further boost its capabilities. Also referred to as an address map, address location map, locator map, store finder, dealer locator (locater), shop finder. 
mapwidget allow you to search any location from front end. want professional version check <a href="http://magento.ifyouknowit.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Go pro</a>
Example usage: 1. Go to admin mapworks settings and put google map api key of yours 2. in your page/post text/editer put this line: 
 [mapworks stext=”[php] if(isset($_POST[‘smap’])){ echo $_POST[‘smap’];} [/php]”]
<pre><code> in your php page you may put <?php 
 if(function_exists('mapworks') ){ mapworks($_POST['smap']); } ?> 
 <?php 
 if(function_exists('mapworks') ){ 
 print do_shortcode('[mapworks stext="'.$_POST['smap'].'"]'); } ?> 
 best option is in your page/post text editer in admin panel put this line. 
 [mapworks stext="[php] if(isset($_POST['smap'])){ echo $_POST['smap'];} [/php]"] </code></pre>

Mapworks

A WordPress-integrated map & location management interface. Quickly create street locator maps

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