Sunday was windy and cold, so I sat in my lazyboy and cranked out some more more code. I believe this version of the Geo Mashup plugin is generally usable, but I’m calling it Beta until I know at least a few people have it working.

New stuff:

• Added a special tag (<!–GeoMashup–>) to allow precise map placement on the page.
• Added an option to select a map control.
• Made map type control optional.
• Added optional CSS style settings.
• Made page slug option a menu selection.
• Added and documented template tags.
• Improved dependency checking and error messages.
• Replaced admin instructions with a link to documentation.
• Added default post_link text for template tag argument.
• Added javascript to unescape entity codes in post descriptions (ugly, but needed).

Some things I’m working on, or would like to work on, but are not in this release:

• Extra WMS Layers, such as the Topo layer I’ve added to the hobomap
• An option to connect markers in a category with a line
• Admin form validation