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.

Author:Carsten Bach (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.1
WordPress version tested:3.4.2
Plugin version:0.0.8
Added to WordPress repository:23-12-2011
Last updated:23-09-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:https://github.com/carstingaxion/wp-cloudmade...
Total downloads:4 152
Active installs:10+
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With WP Cloudmade Maps you are able to add static and interactive maps to your website using Cloudmades designable OpenStreetMaps-Data.
This way you can add maps that fits your webdesign. Choose from over 50.000 ready-to-use map styles or create your own with the CloudMade Style Editor.

The Plugin comes with

  • a widget to show your last geotagged posts with static maps,
  • a shortcode for static maps
  • two shortcodes for interactive maps

and countless attributes, to fit the maps your ideas.

All shortcodes are accessible via an user-friendly tinymce button and a lightweight configuration interface for editors.
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.

General – Features

  • add maps that go nicely with your webdesign, by choosing from over 50.000 map-styles or painting your own
  • works with posts, pages and custom posttypes
  • adds microformat geo-markup to your located content, to make your geo-content machine-readable
  • adds meta-tags with location information to your html output, to make your website readable to geo-DBs
  • ability to enable or disable unused parts of this plugin, to keep it editor-friendly
  • upload custom marker images into the WordPress media-library and use it on your maps
  • check all your default settings with example-maps inside the settings pages directly
  • inline documentation inside the WordPress help-tabs
  • complete deactivation and uninstalling routines to keep your options-table clean
  • JS- and CSS files are loaded conditionally only when they are needed

Static Maps – Features

  • easy embed static map images into your content using GUI or shortcode
  • align maps with the default WordPress alignment CSS-classes
  • add maps as background-images to the body-tag, as header-images or anywhere you want
  • show posts addresses as caption of the maps with WordPress default caption markup

Active Maps for one Marker – Features

  • easy embed active maps into your content using GUI or shortcode
  • align maps with the default WordPress alignment CSS-classes
  • add zoom controls
  • show map scale
  • navigate within a small overview-map
  • add descriptive labels to your map-markers

Active Maps for multiple Marker – Features

This part exists, but is still in development and not really production-ready. So, it is a small window into the next releases.

  • show one active map with multiple Markers, standing for posts of
    • selectable categories,
    • choosen tags,
    • specific users,
    • defined date-ranges,
    • specific post-types,
    • or anything else you could pick up and filter with a WP_Query request – this is the higher vision ????
  • attach Info-Window to each marker and show the_content(), the_excerpt() or own html based on a templatefile

Languages

  • English (en_US)
  • German (de_DE)

Arbitrary section

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.

If you are having a feature request or bug-reports for this plugin, open an issue on github.com.
If there is nothing from you, I’ll go on doing one of the following:

roadmap

  • update the help-section inside the help-tab for the enclosing variant of [cmm_active_single] and for [cmm_active_group]
  • upgrading to CloudMades new “leaflet” library, when it supports the cloudmade style-ID for different map styles
  • give the ability to define horizontal- and vertical-anchor for larger Marker Icons
  • add an option to decide, whether to output xhtml or html markup
  • add geo:RSS markup to feeds
  • add an error message for non-existing default latitude and longitude in general settings
  • add the ability to show the active maps with a caption of the address
  • add a “show on map link”, to jump directly to a specific point
  • upload an “out of range” tile image
  • upload an own loading image
  • enable / disable Marker clustering for active-group-maps
  • upload own cluster images
  • add routing between two points, your posts position and your site-visitors position for example
  • remove PHP notices and warnings from the widget code
  • setup a demo page with example maps
  • GUI bugfix: pre-selected checkboxes could’t be de-selected by inserting via GUI