WP-GMaps

WP-GMaps is a WordPress plugin that helps adding Google Mapplets in your Blog posts and Pages easily.

Download:

• Download WP-GMaps Version 0.1

Features:

• Add Google Mapplets to your Blog posts and Pages
• Support for coordinates in numeric style ,degree style (51°.356,341′) will follow
• Set a default pointer image and pointer shadow image
• Set a default scale factor and map type (Map, Satellite, Hybrid)
• Override scale factor and map type for each single Mapplet

Prerequisites:

• WordPress 2.6 (lower versions may work also, but are untested.)
• PHP5

Settings:

Once activated, you have an options page (GMaps) in the Plugins section of your WordPress backend:

It’s necessary, to get an API key from Google to embed a Google Mapplet. Get it and put it in the settings form:

Here you can also set the default view  (Map, Satellite, Hybrid), add a custom icon for the pointer and a custom shadow for that icon as well as a default scale factor for your Mapplets.

Syntax:

A usual tag looks like this:

[google-maps:51.31232:12.41321]

It comes at least with a pair of coordinates decimal or degree style.
FYI: Google maps works with the WGS84 reference system.

And that’s how the result looks like:

Add optional parameters like scale in the style below, to override the default settings:
[google-maps:51.31232:12.41321:scale=15]