Excellent article, thanks for sharing.

An even better alternative: http://github.com/brianjlandau/jmapping

I am not sure it’s very useful to add layers over an already well-documented API…

But maybe it can help somebody.

Google Maps API V3 doesn’t require any API key and is really easy to use already.

I have been working on a jQuery plugin that might be helpful to others reading this blog.

It allows you to easily get a map on your site, manage markers, custom icons, sidebars…. ect.

http://www.blocsoft.com/bmap/

Darren

Here’s my two cents. First of all, using v2 of google maps API is utterly pointless, since it’s deprecated by google.

Second, the net is full on these sort of wrappers like the one in this post and the ones in the comments. But I have yet to see one which has the option to insert address and then have the API convert it to latitude and longitude. I mean, otherwise a lot of the stuff is pretty useless.
Think about it: you’d have to use some sort of converter for it, which makes it hard to use backend (like PHP) to generate sites where there’s dynamic pages and human readalbe addresses.

thank you for map plugin but dos any body know good plugin to get user location from ip to google map directly
thank you

Hi,

Latest version of gmap3 has been released on http://gmap3.net

Th.