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Author: Chris Abraham

The Comment Geo Maps WordPress plugin allows you to turn a post or a page into a geo-based issue map. This adds value to discussions about issues that are geographically located. All you need to do is create a prompt in the form of a blog post and then people post their comments. Each comment is geo-coded and becomes a point on the map. In this way, a geo-based discussion ensues and the map gets populated with data around a certain topic.

Maps can be started as a post, to make it more time sensitive like in mapping participation at a city-wide event, or as a page, to make it more permanent like for mapping dangerous NYC intersections. The page format fills the whole page and the post format puts a map at the top of the regular list of comments.

You'll need to be relatively comfortable with php code to integrate this plugin into your WordPress theme.

Version History

• 0.1
  • initial release
• 0.2
  • added custom pan-zoom controls
  • limited the zoom bar to local range
  • swapped in Google Maps terrain mode which are much faster than cloudmade tiles
  • fixed a bunch of render bugs across browsers
  • swapped in latest release of openlayers
  • a bunch of minor layout and usability improvements
  • replaced the use of simplexmlloadfile for geocoding for the more secure curl