gMap – lightweight Google Maps Jquery plugin

gMap is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you embed Google Maps into your website. With only 2 KB in size it is very flexible and highly customizable.

gmap gMap lightweight Google Maps Jquery plugin

There are a two requirements you need to meet before you can use gMap to display Google Maps on your website. First you need to sign up for a Google Maps API key. Second you need the jQuery library at least in version 1.3. To work with gMap, first you have to Download the latest version of gMap and include the Google Maps API along with jQuery and gMap in the <head> section of your website. Don’t forget to replace “API_KEY” with your actual API key or the map won’t work when used on a real domain

Creating map using this plugin is pretty simple, just select the new div element using jQuery’s selectors and call the gMap() function on it. gMap can be customized in many different ways. All you need to do is to pass a JSON object to the GMap() function.

Available setting

latitude, longitude
zoom
markers (latitude, longitude, html,popup)
controls
scrollwheel
icon
& more..

Demo: http://gmap.nurtext.de/examples.html
License: CC License