<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.

Carsten Bach

<p>With WP Cloudmade Maps you are able to add static and interactive maps to your website using Cloudmades designable OpenStreetMaps-Data.<br />
This way you can add maps that fits your webdesign. Choose from over 50.000 <a href="http://maps.cloudmade.com/editor" title="Have a look at the style editor and find your style by color or tag" rel="nofollow ugc">ready-to-use map styles</a> or create your own with the CloudMade Style Editor.</p>
<p>The Plugin comes with</p>
<ul>
<li>a widget to show your last geotagged posts with static maps,</li>
<li>a shortcode for static maps</li>
<li>two shortcodes for interactive maps</li>
</ul>
<p>and countless attributes, to fit the maps your ideas.</p>
<p>All shortcodes are accessible via an user-friendly tinymce button and a lightweight configuration interface for editors.<br />
As Administrator you’re able to set everything as defaults, so your editor just have to ‘click & drop’ a new map inside a post, page or a custom_post_type at all.</p>
<h4>General – Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>add maps that go nicely with your webdesign, by choosing from over 50.000 map-styles or painting your own</li>
<li>works with <strong>posts, pages and custom posttypes</strong></li>
<li>adds <strong>microformat geo-markup</strong> to your located content, to make your geo-content machine-readable</li>
<li>adds <strong>meta-tags with location information</strong> to your html output, to make your website readable to geo-DBs</li>
<li>ability to <strong>enable or disable unused parts</strong> of this plugin, to keep it editor-friendly</li>
<li>upload <strong>custom marker images</strong> into the WordPress media-library and use it on your maps</li>
<li>check all your default settings with <strong>example-maps inside the settings pages</strong> directly</li>
<li><strong>inline documentation</strong> inside the WordPress help-tabs</li>
<li>complete <strong>deactivation and uninstalling routines</strong> to keep your options-table clean</li>
<li><strong>JS- and CSS files are loaded conditionally</strong> only when they are needed</li>
</ul>
<h4>Static Maps – Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>easy embed <strong>static map images</strong> into your content using GUI or shortcode</li>
<li>align maps with the default <strong>WordPress alignment CSS-classes</strong></li>
<li>add maps as <strong>background-images</strong> to the <em>body</em>-tag, as <em>header-images</em> or anywhere you want</li>
<li>show posts addresses as caption of the maps with WordPress default caption markup</li>
</ul>
<h4>Active Maps for one Marker – Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>easy embed <strong>active maps</strong> into your content using GUI or shortcode</li>
<li>align maps with the default <strong>WordPress alignment CSS-classes</strong></li>
<li>add zoom controls</li>
<li>show map scale</li>
<li>navigate within a small overview-map</li>
<li>add descriptive labels to your map-markers</li>
</ul>
<h4>Active Maps for multiple Marker – Features</h4>
<p>This part exists, but is still in development and not really production-ready. So, it is a small window into the next releases.</p>
<ul>
<li>show one active map with multiple Markers, standing for posts of
<ul>
<li>selectable categories,</li>
<li>choosen tags,</li>
<li>specific users,</li>
<li>defined date-ranges,</li>
<li>specific post-types,</li>
<li>or anything else you could pick up and filter with a <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query" title="See the codex to get an idea of the possibilities" rel="nofollow ugc">WP_Query request</a> – this is the higher vision 😉</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>attach Info-Window to each marker and show <code>the_content()</code>, <code>the_excerpt()</code> or own <code>html</code> based on a templatefile</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English (en_US)</li>
<li>German (de_DE)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>
<p>All shortcodes and its attributes are described and documented inside the WordPress “help”-tab on the upper right corner of each settings page. Have a look over there if you want to use the shortcodes in your theme files.</p>
<p>If you are having a feature request or bug-reports for this plugin, <a href="https://github.com/carstingaxion/wp-cloudmade-maps/issues/new" rel="nofollow ugc">open an issue</a> on github.com.<br />
If there is nothing from you, I’ll go on doing one of the following:</p>
<h4>roadmap</h4>
<ul>
<li>update the help-section inside the help-tab for the enclosing variant of [cmm_active_single] and for [cmm_active_group]</li>
<li>upgrading to CloudMades new “leaflet” library, when it supports the cloudmade style-ID for different map styles</li>
<li>give the ability to define horizontal- and vertical-anchor for larger Marker Icons</li>
<li>add an option to decide, whether to output xhtml or html markup</li>
<li>add geo:RSS markup to feeds</li>
<li>add an error message for non-existing default latitude and longitude in general settings</li>
<li>add the ability to show the active maps with a caption of the address</li>
<li>add a “show on map link”, to jump directly to a specific point</li>
<li>upload an “out of range” tile image</li>
<li>upload an own loading image</li>
<li>enable / disable Marker clustering for active-group-maps</li>
<li>upload own cluster images</li>
<li>add routing between two points, your posts position and your site-visitors position for example</li>
<li>remove PHP notices and warnings from the widget code</li>
<li>setup a demo page with example maps</li>
<li>GUI bugfix: pre-selected checkboxes could’t be de-selected by inserting via GUI</li>
</ul>


WP Cloudmade Maps

Add static and interactive cloudmade maps to your website, using a widget, different shortcodes and a tinymce GUI for user-friendly map-embedding.

Your Planet Today widget vs WP Cloudmade Maps