<p>Your Planet Today displays a satellite map of the Earth in the sidebar of your blog. With the Google Maps<br />
integration, you can zoom in and pan around. All the satellite images used to generate the map are between<br />
3 and 36 hours old. With this widget you can monitor global weather patterns, dust storms, snow cover, and<br />
air quality.</p>
<p>Read more about Your Planet Today and navigate a full screen map <a href="http://www.wronkiewicz.net/earth/map.html" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>


Your Planet Today widget

Displays an interactive map of the Earth generated from recent satellite photos.

Pronamic

Remco Tolsma

<h4>Intro</h4>
<p>With this plugin a user can easily add location (latitude, longitude) meta data to a page, post or a<br />
custom post type. This plugin adds a meta box with an Google Map to the post editor. Users can easily<br />
drag and drop a marker on the map to save location meta data for a post.</p>
<p>There are quite a few Google Maps plugins available in the WordPress Plugin Directory. Why should you<br />
use the Pronamic Google Maps plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Google Maps API version 3</strong><br />
Most of the available plugins still use the Google Maps version 2 API. To use the Google Maps v2 API you<br />
have to require an API key and include this in the plugin configuration.  The Pronamic Google Maps plugin<br />
uses the Google Maps version 3 API. Wich no longer requires an API key, so you don’t have<br />
to configure this plugin.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Shortcode</strong><br />
Easily integrate a Google Maps in your post content:</p>
<pre><code>[googlemaps]
[googlemaps static=true]
[googlemaps static=true label=M]
[googlemaps width=200 height=200]
[googlemaps new_design=true]
</code></pre>
<p>Also easily integrate an Google Maps mashup in your post content:</p>
<pre><code>[googlemapsmashup query="post_type=company&nopaging=true" map_type_id="satellite"]
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>No extra tables</strong><br />
Some plugin create additional tables in your WordPress database to store additional data. In many<br />
cases this is not necessary, it’s only pollutes your database. WordPress offers enough <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields" rel="nofollow ugc">functions to<br />
store additional data</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Custom Post Types</strong><br />
A lot of the WordPress plugins are developed before WordPress 3 was launched. These plugins not<br />
always use the new features of WordPress 3. Many plugins only focus on posts and pages, but not<br />
on other custom post types. This plugin does!</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Mashup</strong><br />
Easily create an Google Maps mashup to show all your posts on Google Maps. You can use an very powerfull<br />
pronamic_google_maps_mashup() function or the shortcode. Both methods allow you to pass <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters" rel="nofollow ugc">custom<br />
WordPress query parameters</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>No notices or warning</strong><br />
Pronamic is one of the few companies that develop all WordPress plugins in debug mode. This results<br />
in high quality plugins with no errors, warnings or notices.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom Post Types</h4>
<p>The nice thing about this plugin that developers can configure on what post type the meta box should be visible.<br />
Developers can activate the meta box for every custom post type they registered with the<br />
<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type" rel="nofollow ugc">register_post_type function</a>.</p>
<p>For example: if a developer registers a custom post type for <em>real estate</em> it is very easy to activate and<br />
manage location data for that post type. It comes in handy for all kind of custom post types!</p>
<ul>
<li>Projects</li>
<li>Real estate</li>
<li>Restaurants</li>
<li>Accommodations</li>
<li>Hotels</li>
<li>Ships</li>
<li>Ports</li>
</ul>
<h4>Microformats</h4>
<p>The plugin uses the latest <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/geo" rel="nofollow ugc">GEO microformat standards</a>.</p>
<pre><code><div class="geo">
    <abbr class="latitude" title="37.408183">N 37° 24.491</abbr> 
    <abbr class="longitude" title="-122.13855">W 122° 08.313</abbr>
</div>
</code></pre>
<h4>Support Development</h4>
<p>If you like this plugin we hope that you will help support our continued development.<br />
The two best ways to offer your support is to send us a donation. Even $1 helps encourage<br />
us to do more. If you can’t donate, please help us reach our 5-star rating by rating this<br />
plugin.</p>
<h4>Donate</h4>
<p><a href="http://pronamic.eu/donate/?for=wp-plugin-pronamic-google-maps&source=wp-plugin-readme-txt" rel="nofollow ugc">Donate today!</a></p>
<h4>Rate Us</h4>
<p>Please <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pronamic-google-maps/" rel="ugc">rate us</a>!<br />
Give us a chance to <a href="http://pronamic.eu/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">address your concerns</a><br />
if we didn’t earn 5 stars.</p>
<h4>Special Requests</h4>
<p>We do accept feature requests for all of our plugins, free ones included. The most requested features<br />
will make it into the next version.</p>
<p><strong>If you need a special feature NOW, <a href="http://pronamic.eu/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a>!</strong><br />
We offer expedited feature development. Most features can be implemented in less than a week for $200!</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>pl_PL by <a href="http://modestowicz.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Marcin Modestowicz</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Pronamic</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://pronamic.eu/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pronamic</a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/pronamic" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Pronamic" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/pronamic" rel="nofollow ugc">LinkedIN</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-maps-utility-library-v3/" rel="nofollow ugc">google-maps-utility-library-v3</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tech.cibul.org/geocode-with-google-maps-api-v3/" rel="nofollow ugc">Geocode with Google Maps API v3</a></li>
<li><a href="http://icalevents.anmari.com/2343-event-locations-geo-tags-for-custom-post-types/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress event locations</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lawrence.ecorp.net/inet/samples/regexp-format.php" rel="nofollow ugc">JavaScript Regular Expression</a></li>
<li><a href="http://remcotolsma.nl/" rel="nofollow ugc">Remco Tolsma</a></li>
<li><a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax" title="Markdown is what the parser uses to process much of the readme file" rel="nofollow ugc">Markdown’s Syntax Documentation</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugin in the wild</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://metz-ameland.nl/" rel="nofollow ugc">Metz Ameland</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.earthcircuit.org/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Earthcircuit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.comandolechuga.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Comando Lechuga</a></li>
<li><a href="http://pf.nl/" rel="nofollow ugc">Professionele Fotografie</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bouwwereld.nl/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bouwwereld</a></li>
<li><a href="http://architectuur.nl/" rel="nofollow ugc">Architectuur</a></li>
<li><a href="http://longboard.no/" rel="nofollow ugc">Longboard.no</a></li>
<li><a href="http://pf.nl/" rel="nofollow ugc">Professionele Fotografie</a></li>
<li><a href="http://emonta.nl/" rel="nofollow ugc">Emonta</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Pronamic plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pronamic-google-maps/" rel="ugc">Pronamic Google Maps</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravityforms-nl/" rel="ugc">Gravity Forms (nl)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pronamic-page-widget/" rel="ugc">Pronamic Page Widget</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pronamic-page-teasers/" rel="ugc">Pronamic Page Teasers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maildit/" rel="ugc">Maildit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pronamic-framework/" rel="ugc">Pronamic Framework</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pronamic-ideal/" rel="ugc">Pronamic iDEAL</a></li>
</ul>


Pronamic Google Maps

Very stable Google Maps plugin

This plugin makes it easy to add Google Maps to your WordPress post, pages or other custom post types.

Your Planet Today widget vs Pronamic Google Maps