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Remco Bron

<p><em>Map pins makes it easy to create a map with locations of businesses, events, or venues on a map.</em></p>
<h4>You can:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Insert a Google Map with custom markers anywhere on your blog using a shortcode.</li>
<li>Show a scrollable list of locations next to the Google Map.</li>
<li>Order the locations based on distance from visitor location (based on browser location).</li>
<li>Oodles of information can be maintained per pin/location.</li>
<li>Business hours are defined per location. Visitors can search for currently opened locations.</li>
<li>Most options are highly customizable:
<ul>
<li>All options can be controlled by shortcode parameters</li>
<li>Show different sets of locations on various pages by using the location category</li>
<li>You can display only a map, display a map and list combination and even show only a list of locations (for example in your sidebar). All variants are searchable.</li>
<li>Includes country specific search options, for example zip-code optimized searching (powered by Google Maps).</li>
<li>Large number of marker-icons provided (courtesy of Maps Icons Collection project by Nicolas Mollet). You can add your own custom icons to the map as well.</li>
<li>Configurable admin environment to make location maintenance very easy.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Automatic scaling of the map boundaries based on locations shown.</li>
<li>English and Dutch translations are included.</li>
<li>Translatable using .mo and .po files.</li>
<li>Optimized for WordPress Multisite</li>
</ul>
<h4>Your visitors can:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Browse a Google Map with all the locations you added.</li>
<li>Use an intelligent search option to find locations close to a location (search powered by Google Maps).</li>
<li>Find locations based on their current location (using GPS / IP location via the browser).</li>
<li>Search based on business hours of a location is opened right now or not.</li>
<li>Find information about the location you added by clicking a map marker including: name, address, business hours, any text you add and a hyperlink).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Example shortcode:</h4>
<p>[mappins-map width=”500″ height=”900″ searchbar=”Y” list=”left” showmap=”show” listwidth=”40%”]</p>
<h4>List of location attributes:</h4>
<p>name, address, zipcode, city, country, telephone, category, markericon, openinghours, link URL, latitude/longitude</p>
<h4>Licenses:</h4>
<ul>
<li>The plugin uses wonderful custom marker icons from the Maps Icons Collection project by Nicolas Mollet. (http://mapicons.nicolasmollet.com/)</li>
<li>Header photo by Dave77459 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave77459/6335868568/) cc license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)</li>
</ul>


Map pins

Add custom markers on an embedded Google Map. Includes full search-ability, my-location via GPS, a list of nearby locations, and business hours.

alaingg

<p>This plugin allows to include instances of Google Maps in your blogs with a simple editor button. You can insert maps everywhere: in your theme files, posts and pages. The points can include custom title, description, marker and thumbnail. The plugin is designed to allow multiple interactions with the users:  Animations, Slideshows, Scrolls and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://web-argument.com/google-map-shortcode-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Page</a> | <a href="http://web-argument.com/google-map-shortcode-reference/" rel="nofollow ugc">Shortcode References</a> | <a href="http://web-argument.com/google-map-shortcode-how-to-use/" rel="nofollow ugc">How To Use</a> | <a href="http://web-argument.com/google-map-shortcode-modules/" rel="nofollow ugc">Modules</a> | <a href="http://web-argument.com/google-map-shortcode-wordpress-plugin/#examples" rel="nofollow ugc">Examples</a></p>
<p>Special Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Multiple features allowed like slideshows and scrolls, to interact with the maps.</li>
<li>The plugin can handle large number of map points.</li>
<li>Points can be added using address or coordinates.</li>
<li>Addresses in different languages allowed.</li>
<li>Simple editor button to include points and maps into the posts and pages.</li>
<li>Custom markers.</li>
<li>Based on Google Maps Javascript API Version 3.</li>
<li>Faster and more applicable to mobile devices.</li>
<li>Maps in multiple languages.</li>
<li>Points under categories can be included.</li>
<li>You can customize the html of the info window box on the settings.</li>
<li>The plugin is based on WordPress shortcode and allows many options like: initial zoom, width, height, categories, post ID, specific address, marker and thumbnail.</li>
</ul>
<p>Plugin Languages:</p>
<ul>
<li>English – default</li>
<li>French – Thanks to <a href="http://mapicons.nicolasmollet.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Nicolas Mollet</a></li>
<li>Polish – Thanks to <a href="http://www.fry.li" rel="nofollow ugc">Łukasz Farysej</a></li>
<li>Slovak – Thanks to <a href="http://www.fry.li" rel="nofollow ugc">Branco Radenovich</a> </li>
<li>Spanish – Thanks to <a href="http://web-argument.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Alain Gonzalez</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Please contact me [alaingoga at gmail] in order to include your language within the plugin package.</p>


Google Map Shortcode

Real Friendly integration of Google Maps instances into your blogs. The plugin allows to display multiple maps on your pages.

Map pins vs Google Map Shortcode