Micah Wood

Stellar Places is an intuitive plugin for easily creating, managing and displaying locations using Google Maps.
<h4>How?</h4>
Using this plugin is simple:
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin</li>
<li>Activate the plugin</li>
<li>In the WordPress admin, click on ‘Places’</li>
<li>Click on ‘Add New’ and create a new place.</li>
</ol>
Once you have added a new place, you will be able to access the listing view and single location view, both of which will automatically have maps associated with them. If you wish to insert a map in a custom location, just use the <code>[stellar_places_map]</code> shortcode (see FAQ section for more details).
<h4>Why?</h4>
There are plenty of Google Maps plugins for WordPress, but very few actually use custom post types to manage locations. Additionally most don’t have a simple and intuitive interface. Let’s take a look at some use cases where Stellar Places shines:
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Store Locator – If you own a business that has multiple physical locations, this plugin will automatically feature a list of all store locations as well as provide a page for each store location, which is good for local SEO.
</li>
<li>
Local Events – If your organization sponsors or holds local events, this plugin makes it easy to display them all on a map, or even display subsets based on categories.
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</ul>
Let us how know how you are using Stellar Places!
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Live map preview</li>
<li>Drag and drop marker relocation</li>
<li>Location pages for better SEO</li>
<li>Unlimited locations and maps</li>
<li>Mobile friendly, responsive maps</li>
<li>Easy map embeds via shortcode</li>
<li>Clean, well written code that won’t bog down your site</li>
</ul>
<h4>Upcoming Features</h4>
If there is a feature or integration that you are interested in, please let me know. What I build will be entirely based on what my users need, so let your voice be heard by using the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/stellar-places" rel="ugc">support forum</a> or creating a <a href="https://github.com/wpscholar/stellar-places/issues/new" rel="nofollow ugc">new issue on GitHub</a>.
Banner Disclaimer: The icon used in the banner was designed by <a href="http://www.iconarchive.com/show/flatwoken-icons-by-alecive/Apps-Google-Maps-icon.html" rel="nofollow ugc">alecive</a>. It has been altered and used with the author’s permission under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow ugc">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license</a>.
<h4>Special Thanks</h4>
A very special thank you to our plugin translators:
Jacques Soulé (French) – http://wordpress-pour-vous.com/

Stellar Places

I've used this plugin many times on multiple sites.  It has worked as expected every time.

Great plugin

Easily create, manage and display locations in a way that makes sense.

Nagmay

Create maps, drop pins, and so much more!
This plugin adds a new <code>placemark</code> post type that allows author to create and update map content.
The author interface includes:
Place
<ul>
<li>An interactive map to drop and move pins</li>
<li>A way to edit GPS by hand and make use of the geolocation on your mobile phone</li>
<li>An editable set of drop-down lists for picking locations</li>
<li>An alternative text area to describe the location</li>
</ul>
Mark
<ul>
<li>An editable drop-down of marker types and associated icons</li>
<li>An optional title</li>
<li>Optional bubble text</li>
<li>Optional link</li>
</ul>
** Optional ** 
The locations and marker types can be set by an administrator. This allow the you to:
<ul>
<li>Customize the types of markers includeing the image</li>
<li>Set a custom taxonomy for locations, allowing authors to zoom in to campus, building, floor, etc…</li>
<li>Add image overlays to each location, including floorplans. </li>
</ul>
To embed the maps a simple short code is used. You can limit which type of placemarks will show up on each map.
A basic API allows you to pull out the data for other mapping systems.

Placemarks

Allow authors to easily manage placemarks and embed custom maps.

Stellar Places vs Placemarks