Excellent Com and responsive author.
This is one of the more complete and com's I have used on our 1.x site. The com installs and works as is.

Using the configuration section we were quickly able to customize the Com to what we wanted. Then we added the CB plugin and continued on to added site specific markers.. all worked and it was easy to use.

Code seems well laid out and easy to read in case we need to go deeper.. :)

Well done.

Yes very nice work!
I have bee using it from the beginning without any bug, the cb geocoding feature works great and evryting is documented.

I'm only missing a forum to share feature requests but I understand it would take time to maintain. Well My feature requests: ;)
- ability to start on relief map
- ability to change map layout and not using a google map, for ex: http://ryanallen.com/gooncity/city.htm
- Need a content plugin(bot) to add coordinates to content article to have its marker created when saving article...

Keep on the good work!

Thank you very much - the best component with google maps. A very flexible component and a really good and fast support by the developer.

Displaying the results of the directions on the website below the map instead in a new window with Google would be a great feature and would make this component perfect.

I've spent a couple of hours with testing and building some sample maps (with Joomla 1.0.15). The Component seems to be very flexible. Assigning markers to categories is a good method to build groups of them. The way to create markers is easy, and the option to retrive geo coordinates via google or yahoo is a good solution.

The Backend gives a lot of configuration options. The tooltips near the options are mostly helpful but not always sufficient.

The URL generator is very helpful. After generating some maps with the generator it's easy to modify an URL without using the generator anymore.

A feature that I'm missing (and think of it could be useful) is the option to assign markers to more than one category.

A little bit more of documentation could push up this component to "excellent" level. Currently I did not find a method to assign a marker icon (lets say marker-red.png) to category 1 and another icon (i.e. marker-small-green.png) to category 2.

And another feature that comes to my mind: Assigning markers to a certain zoom level. That means of marker type "A" will show up on each zoom level on the map, while another marker of type "B" will show up on zoom level 10 or above. These zoom levels should be configurable. This would be great. ;-)

Installed and work absolutely great. Thank you a lot!

This is a mind boggling component with more options than CB, JGroups, and VM combined! I had the basics up and running in a few minutes and the potential seems to be unlimited.

Now for the downside. There only seems to be a one page, 12 step, help file for this massively complex component and there is no forum for support! There is a Google group with some activity, but the respondents on that forum seem to be hard core Google map API types whose answers don't really help the newbies or non-techies that want to do a bit more than the basics with the component.

I'm a programmer with over 30 years exp but trying to get my head around the potential of this component is very frustrating without a dedicated forum.

After few hours of testing on JoomlaCZ (1.0.13) must say: the best component with google maps ever! Thank you! Had no time to find any bugs. But dont say there are no bugs, onl say that after first day working perfectly. Good job.