New Jersey Scuba Diving

I did some clever programming on my WordPress mapping plugin and WordPress theme, and now I have much finer control over the charts. At the moment I am only using it to highlight specific points with color depending on the enclosing page. That gives me a thousand custom charts from a few base ones. Effectively, every site has its own custom chart now.

For example, above is the standard chart for the Manasquan Reef, with a lot of silly colors and animations applied, just to test things. I especially like the scale. I hope Google doesn't see that - they'll steal it for Google Earth! You can see the normal chart below.

This may seem like a small thing, but some of the charts have over a hundred markers, and this makes it much easier to find the relevant one. It's all done with CSS, and can do anything that CSS can do. And not just the maps, the new custom CSS functionality can be used to customize the entire page.

My mapping plugin is so much better than the old graphic / image-map charts that I threw them all away. Those graphics had become undersized for the new layout, and I would have had to rebuild them all from scratch, a job I was never going to do. My plugin is also better for my purposes than any other I have seen, including the one I paid for that started this whole mess.

• 197 Maps on 185 Posts
• 1101 Points
• 20 Lines
• 61 Shapes

I would submit my plugin to WordPress for others to use, but I have had bad experiences with that. Last time I submitted something to them, I got fed up on the fourth round of idiotic nitpicking and withdrew it.

While doing all this, I also went through all the maps and markers, and fixed a few things that got lost in the conversion. Actually, I'm surprised what a good job I did on the first pass, there was very little to fix.