The most popular online maps service today is certainly Google Maps. This service covers the entire globe. Allmost all places and addresses throughout the world are included in this giant online world map. Modern websites often use free maps from Google to show where the company is located or how to find the company's offices. Travel websites can use maps to show destinations they offer for vacation trips.
Joomla Google Maps Plugin and Module Hot Maps has been created to allow webmasters to include any map from Google Maps inside Joomla website. With one purchase, you will get both Hot Maps plugin and module.
Google Maps Module (view demo above)
Once you install the module and publish it in appropriate module positions, you should enter location that should be displayed (in example "Copacabana beach Brazil") and set dimensions (width and height) of the map. That's it. Your map is ready! There's not need to register or copy any code.
This module is based on Google Maps API v3 and you have full control over the map style. You can change map image parameters (hue, saturation, lightness), colors and enable or disable UI elements.
In addition, you can include pre-text and post-text (HTML allowed) that will be displayed above and below the map. Learn more...
Google Maps Plugin
The Hot Maps plugin allows you to add maps into your Joomla articles. This is done easily by placing a code snippet with location and size of the map.
When you create/edit any page, in place where you'd like a map to be shown, you should add this code:
{*hotmaps}paris eiffel tower,300,200{/hotmaps*}
Important: Please remove asterisks (*) from the above sample! We put it there only to prevent changing the code with map. Learn more...