Your Planet Today displays a satellite map of the Earth in the sidebar of your blog. With the Google Maps 
integration, you can zoom in and pan around. All the satellite images used to generate the map are between 
3 and 36 hours old. With this widget you can monitor global weather patterns, dust storms, snow cover, and 
air quality.
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>.

Your Planet Today widget

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

Ben Huson

<blockquote>
Important Note About WP Geo 3.3+ 
 This update now uses Google Maps API v3. While it should continue to work OK it you have simply installed and are using a previous version of WP Geo, if you have customised your templates or used any filters you may need to update your code to work with this version of Google’s API. Please <a href="https://github.com/benhuson/WP-Geo/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">submit any bugs or issues here…</a>
</blockquote>
When editing a post or page, you will be able to set a physical location for that post and easily embed a Google map into your post. You can select the location by:
<ol>
<li>Clicking on the map of the world to position the point.</li>
<li>Searching for a location, town, city or address.</li>
<li>Entering the latitude and longitude. </li>
</ol>
The WP Geo location selector is styled to fit seamlessly into the latest version of the WordPress admin.
More information can be found at http://www.wpgeo.com/.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Custom marker title setting per post.</li>
<li>Custom zoom and map type per post.</li>
<li>Supports custom post types.</li>
<li>Widget zoom option.</li>
<li>Default Map Location setting.</li>
<li>Geo Meta Tags</li>
<li>Markers links to posts</li>
<li>Settings for default controls</li>
<li>Custom Markers</li>
<li>Sidebar Widget</li>
<li>GeoRSS points in feeds.</li>
<li>Set default map zoom level.</li>
<li>Show post maps on category and archive pages.</li>
<li>Set default width and height for maps</li>
<li>Shortcode [wp_geo_map] to insert map within your post</li>
<li>Select your preferred map type</li>
<li>Select wether to show your map at the top or bottom of posts (or not at all)</li>
<li>Set a location by clicking on a map or</li>
<li>Set a location by searching for a location, town, city or address or</li>
<li>Set a location by entering the latitude and longitude</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
WP Geo is currently available in the following languages:
<ul>
<li>Belorussian (by <a href="http://antsar.info/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ilyuha</a>)</li>
<li>Bulgarian (by <a href="http://www.georss.biz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Roman Rachkov</a>)</li>
<li>Chinese, Simplified (by <a href="http://twitter.com/imsteen" rel="nofollow ugc">Steen Chow</a>)</li>
<li>Croatian (by <a href="http://www.adriaindex.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Andrija Papec</a>)</li>
<li>Danish (by <a href="http://wordpress.blogos.dk/søg-efter-downloads/?did=91" rel="nofollow ugc">Georg</a>)</li>
<li>Dutch (by <a href="http://daveyyzermans.nl/" rel="nofollow ugc">Davey IJzermans</a>)</li>
<li>English (default)</li>
<li>French (by Alain Messin)</li>
<li>German (by <a href="http://blog.bildergallery.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ivan Graf</a>)</li>
<li>Italian (by Diego Pierotto)</li>
<li>Russian (by <a href="http://www.fatcow.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Fat Cower</a>)</li>
<li>Serbian (by Borisa Djuraskovic – <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Web Hosting Hub</a>)</li>
<li>Spanish (by Alberto)</li>
<li>Turkish (by Mehmet HAKAN, <a href="www.wpsitesi.com" rel="nofollow ugc">WPsitesi</a>)</li>
</ul>

WP Geo

Adds location maps to your posts, pages and custom post types.

Your Planet Today widget vs WP Geo