gMap is a lightweight (only 2 KB in size) jQuery plugin that helps you easily embed Google maps in your web pages. gMap is very flexible, and you can customize it in many different ways by passing a JSON object (containing various custom properties) to the GMap() function.
You can specify location of your gMap object using longitude and latitude. Additional features include ability to specify which controls you want, enable or disable zooming with mouse scroll-wheel , custom marker image, multiple markers, custom viewport position, and zoom.
Developed by Cedric Kastner; gMap jQuery Plugin is available for download under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. You can find further information, demos & download on gMap Website.
It could be interesting to put a link to the plugin page for those who don’t know where they can find it.
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/gmap
Thanks, just added link to gMap website.
You can also use gmap3, it allow to manipulate google map v3 with a full jquery way
http://night-coder.com/jquery-plugin-gmap3.html
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/gmap3
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