jQuery responsive google maps

What's it all about?

Well, when scrolling a website on your mobile device you can get trapped in a google map due to the Maps scrollbar of death™. This plugin gives you a native google maps on your website and a safe fallback to the static image API of google maps for smaller devices.

More info can be found here: http://joggink.com/2012/01/responsive-google-maps/

How to use?

Download the jquery.mobilegmap.js. Removing comments and minifying it will get you bonus points!

To use it:

$(document).ready(function(){    // your google map container   $('.gmap').mobileGmap();  })

You can optionally change these default parameters:

$(document).ready(function(){    // your google map container   $('.gmap').mobileGmap({     deviceWidth: 480 // The select will be added for screensizes smaller than this   });  })

If you want to pass the address, zoom level and the maptype you can use HTML5 data-attributes

  <div class="gmap" id="map" data-center="Brugse Heirweg 37 Aartrijke Belgium" data-zoom="15">     <address>       <strong>builtbyrobot</strong><br />       Brugse Heirweg 37<br />       8211 Aartrijke     </address>   </div>

And that's it that's all.

However...

There are still some things that need to be taken care of:

• make it optional to show / hide the address marker
• add multiple markers with balloons containing more info / fallback with numbers or letters for the mobile version