Comment Geo Maps 0.2

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.installation : To install the plugin: 1. Unzip the plugin into the /wp-content/plugins directory on your webserver. 2. Activate the plugin. 3. Fill in the "Comment Geo Maps" settings page. Get a Google Maps API key here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html 4. Copy cgm-comment.php to your theme directory. 5. Edit your theme to use cgm-comments.php. For an example of how to do this, see http://oss.openplans.org/commentgeomaps/wiki/CGMCommentsDiff 6. Edit cgm-comments.php as necessary to make it work with your theme.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 o initial release * 0.2 o added custom pan-zoom controls o limited the zoom bar to local range o swapped in Google Maps terrain mode which are much faster than cloudmade tiles o fixed a bunch of render bugs across browsers o swapped in latest release of openlayers o a bunch of minor layout and usability improvements o replaced the use of simplexml_load_file for geocoding for the more secure curl

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Platforms:	PHP
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