Maps are used so widely in web design and they are usually expected to be interactive when presenting data. It can be the branches of an international company, statistics about countries or just destinations to visualize. Like said lots of uses.
There are myriad of popular providers available for building interactive map applications like Google Maps or Bing Maps and they provide APIs for integration. However, using an open source engine or plugin and the ability to switch providers anytime offers more freedom + flexibility.
In this article we have chosen Best jQuery Map Plugins, that would help you to build interactive maps by adding Google, Bing maps in your web applications and help you to track your visitors locations and deliver better end user experience.
1. MapIt
MapIt is an easy way to embed google maps in your sites , you can customize google maps, routes, events to handle markers and routs and many more.
2. Weather on Google Maps
Weather on Google Maps plugin allows you to easily embed any number of Google Maps with live weather information for any numer of cities using simple HTML snippets. You can customize the look and feel of the weather information box via CSS and even choose what data to display.
3. Easy Locator
EasyLocator is a jquery plugin to load locations with Google Maps in any website using a google spreadsheet or an array of objects.
4. gmaps.js
gMaps.js allows you to use the potential of Google Maps in a simple way. No more extensive documentation or large amount of code.
5. jQuery Shop Locator
jQuery Map Listing by createIT generates a searchable list from your map markers.A must have plugin if you have multiple shop locations!
6. jQuery Travel
Travelmap plugin help you to pin your visited cities and countries on Google map with jQuery.
7. jVectorMap
jVectorMap is a jQuery plugin employed to show vector maps and visualize data on HTML pages. It uses SVG in all modern browsers like Firefox 3 or 4, Safari, Chrome, Opera, IE9, while legacy support for older versions of IE from 6 to 8 is provided with VML.
8. jQuery Mapael
jQuery Mapael is a jQuery plugin that allows you to display dynamic vector maps. With Mapael, you can display a map of the world with clickable countries. You can build simple dataviz by setting some parameters in order to automatically set a color to each area of your map and generate the legend.
9. Activ’Map jQuery Plugin
The perfect plugin to research and locate custom services and equipments in a city, among other things, Activ’Map is a JQuery plugin using the Google Maps API V3 and Bootstrap 3.x which display a map with markers sorted by categories.
10. jHere
With jHERE, you can easily add interactive maps to your website. In only 5KB (2KB Gzipped), you get a powerful map API, highly customizable markers, event handling and info bubbles. Bonus features are KML support and data visualization via heatmaps.
11. jQuery Location Picker Plugin
Location Picker plugin allows to easily find and select a location on the Google Map. Along with a single point selection, it allows to choose an area by providing its center and the radius. All the data can be saved to any HTML input element automatically as well as be processed by Javascript (callback support).
12. Google Maps Draw Module with jQuery
Google Maps Draw Module is a useful tool for web developers who want to build web apps for creating maps and draw shapes in the front end. It is based on modern tools such as Google API v3, jQuery, Javascript, Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3. This module provides a responsive web interface to users for adding markers and drawing polygons, rectangles, polylines and circles in order to create maps online. Users are able to add/edit/delete objects on Google Maps. Also users can enter title and description for all objects they create.
13. Lazy Loading Google Maps
A tiny jQuery plugin for lazy-loading Google Maps. jQuery plugin, which just loads the maps and then gives away the full control of the loaded ones to you. On every scroll and browser resize interval the plugin checks whether there are any maps in the viewport to be displayed. If yes, it loads (if it wasn’t loaded before) Google Maps API script file and then initiates the corresponding map instances.
14. jQuery Map Marker
This plugin makes it easy to put multiple markers on Map using Google Map API V3. Map Marker is very useful when you have a list of data & you want to show all of them on Map too.
15. StatMapSVG
StatMapSVG is a jQuery plugin to display statistical data in the form of a map such as the number of people in each area, the location and distribution of data, grouping data based on the value of a specified interval, and others. StatMapSVG takes map files in SVG format and makes them interactive. You can use StatMapSVG for country maps, province maps, city maps, floor plans and others.
16. jQuery Geolocation Edit
jQuery plugin for editing latitude/longitude pair with Google Maps window. Features (optional) geocoding of address text with Google Geocoding API.
17. Twism
Twism is a clickable SVG maps jQuery plugin.Well, it works for any SVG that has IDs on the clickable regions. I made it for rolling out quick maps, though. You should probably use D3.js or Raphael if you want a robust, tested library for manipulating vector graphics.
18. Mapplic
If you would like to turn your photo/vector graphic map into a fancy interactive map application that is supported by every major browser and it’s working even on mobile or other touch devices, you can stop searching, you’ve come to the right place. In fact, you came to the only place, since it is the only utility available with this unique feature set.
19. Gmap3
GMap3 is the ultimate plugin to create and manage Google Maps to jQuery. Based on an advanced managment system, GMap3 allows you to finely manipulate yours markers and others objects, to associate custom data usable in each event.
20. FormMapper
An advanced jQuery plugin that utilizes the Google Maps API’s Geocoding and Places Autocomplete services. You simply provide a single input field that lets you search for locations with an autocomplete dropdown. Optionally: you can add a map container that will display an interactive map with drag and drop location finding capabilities and a form that will be populated with the complete address details including the latitude and longitude coordinates.
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