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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.

Marin Matosevic

<h4>Map Me is easy to use</h4>
<p>Map Me plugin can display multiple locations on the map and each location can have different marker and info window, you can also animate some markers to point them out from others.<br />
Map Me offers more than 25 different map theme styles so your map will look and feel perfectly on every website.<br />
Map can be easily inserted into post or page via [mm_map] shortcode, just pass it into your post or page and you’re done.</p>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy to use, no coding required.</li>
<li>More than 25 map theme styles.</li>
<li>Multiple markers.</li>
<li>Automatic geolocation.</li>
<li>Each map marker can have a unique icon.</li>
<li>Add animations to your map markers.</li>
<li>Add info windows with details about location.</li>
<li>Easy to change default map settings.</li>
<li>Responsive.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Additional Info</h3>
<p><strong>Idea Behind / Philosophy:</strong> Just a little leightweight plugin for all WordPress users out there to make their maps look better. I’ll try to add more plugin/theme support and more plugin option over time. So stay tuned.</p>


Map Me

Unlike all other insanely advanced google maps plugins that have not got any of their features working smoothly, this one does as long as you do what the author says.

Usability wise this plugin is less powerful as it is technically. That's why I'm leaving you here with the following feedback:

- Try to implement validations with well explained error messages. For example at the settings page you have to make sure the user enters location parameters to center the map on but none of those fields are required.
- Make sure you show/explain/give the user all information to make the user aware of the capabilities the user got. For example you simply display a text area at the short description field when adding a location marker. But you can enter HTML there so why don't you show the WYSIWYG editor included with WordPress or give a little hint?

Features I would change/remove are:
- Selecting a predefined map style, why not store the "snazzymaps" configuration in the database and shortly tell users how they can do it their self. I know this is not making it easier but customizability is way more important here. You can also do both :)
- Center map on the specified address. Why not center on a long/lat coordinate or on the center of the (selected) marker locations

Simpel but not that easy

Easy and fast way to embed google map into your site. Choose between more than 20 beautiful map themes, add multiple locations, info windows and more.

Map pins vs Map Me