Looks nice, but how do I get it to work?

I just saw a cool link and posted it. I've not looked at it very closely.

Such a plugin should be great.

I try to set up a travell blog, and my suggestion for a Google Map plugin are the following :

• Create a different map for each blog on the b2evolution installation.

• Add a small map in the sidebar, wich links to a new page with a big interactive map (wich should autozoom to view all the point on the map).

• Locate post and images on the map (post referes to the map with a link / a minimap wich locate the post, clicking on a point on the map may show the beginning of the post / a thumbnail of the image and a link "read next" / "view larger").

• Autolink each "post point" one to another in a chronological order, or associate a post to a trip (i.e. the following road, maybe by defining chekpoint on the map).

• For multi-user blog, it should be a good idea to associate a color to each blogger, and to link only points from on user.

• Finally, all this should be optionnal when publishing a new post...[/list:u]

The guy who can do such a plugin will receive my eternal gratitude !

I'm currently working on such a plugin. It's still a bit rough I guess (not much to configure except "apply rendering"), but works.
At the moment it supports associating either a street address or a geocoordinate with a post.

The code is available at http://idlecrew.de:2380/svn/public/geocode_plugin/
A demo installation can be found here: http://idlecrew.de:2380/blogs/geodemo

Example: Showing a map of all posts currently shown: add the following code to the _main.php of your skin:

	$geo = $Plugins->get_by_code('evo_geocode');
	if (isset($MainList) && isset($geo))
		$geo->render_map_header($MainList, $width, $height);

--matthias