jQuery Mapael - Build dynamic vector maps

For more information and documentation, go to Mapael website.

Additional maps are stored in the repository 'neveldo/mapael-maps'.

Overview

jQuery Mapael is a jQuery plugin based on raphael.js that allows you to display dynamic vector maps.

For example, 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. Moreover, you can plot cities on a map with their latitude and longitude.

As Raphaël, Mapael supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome 5.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

See this example !

Key features

based on jQuery and raphael.js
Interactive. Set a link, a tooltip and some events on the areas of the map
Plottable cities with their latitude and their longitude
Areas and plots colorization. Mapael automatically sets a color to each area of your map and generates an interactive legend in order to build pretty dataviz
Easy to add new maps. Build your own maps based on SVG format
SEO-friendly. An alternative content can be set for non-JS users and web crawlers
Resizable Thanks to raphael.js, maps are easily resizable.
Zoom Zoom and panning abilities.

How to use Mapael

Here is the simplest example that shows how to display an empty map of the world :

HTML :

<div class="container">
    <div class="map">Alternative content</div>
</div>

JS :

$(".container").mapael({
    map : {
        name : "world_countries"
    }
});

Examples

License

jQuery Mapael is licensed under the MIT license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.