Jekyll Maps
Jekyll Maps is a plugin that allows you to easily create different maps on your Jekyll site pages. It allows you to select which points to display on the map with different filters.
GoogleMaps Marker Clusterer can be used if you have many points within close proximity.
Installation
- Add the following to your site's
Gemfile
:
gem 'jekyll-maps'
- Add the following to your site's
_config.yml
:
plugins:
- jekyll-maps
Usage
Configure Google API Key
To be able to use Google Maps you need to obtain API Key.
Once you have your API Key you need to add it to Jekyll's _config.yml
:
maps:
google:
api_key: <YOUR_KEY>
Data Source
First, add location information to your posts YAML front-matter:
location:
latitude: 51.5285582
longitude: -0.2416807
You can specify multiple locations per post:
location:
- latitude: 51.5285582
longitude: -0.2416807
- latitude: 52.5285582
longitude: -2.2416807
- title: custom marker title
image: custom marker image
url: custom marker url
latitude: 51.5285582
longitude: -0.2416807
Alternatively, you can add location info to your custom collection's documents or even in data files:
- title: Paris
url: http://google.fr
location:
latitude: 48.8587741
longitude: 2.2074741
- title: Madrid
url: http://google.es
location:
latitude: 40.4378698
longitude: -3.8196204
By default this plugin will display location from the page it's placed on:
{% google_map %}
But you can use src attribute to load locations from other places, like posts, collections or data files!
For example, this map will show locations from all posts from 2016:
{% google_map src="_posts/2016" %}
This map will show locations from a collection called 'my_collection':
{% google_map src="_collections/my_collection" %}
This map will show locations from all data files located in 'my_points' sub-folder:
{% google_map src="_data/my_points" %}
You can configure map's dimensions and assign custom CSS class to the element:
{% google_map width="100%" height="400" class="my-map" %}
You can also just set marker coordinates directly in tag attributes:
{% google_map latitude="48.8587741" longitude="2.2074741" marker_title="My Location" marker_img="/img.jpg" marker_url="/my-location.html" %}
This will create a map with single marker in given location. marker_title
, marker_img
and
marker_url
attributes are optional and current page's data will be used by default.
Filters
You can also filter which locations to display on the map!
For instance, following tag will
only display locations from documents which have lang: en
in their front-matter data.
{% google_map src="_posts" lang="en" %}
Marker Cluster
By default Marker Clusterer is enabled. If you have many markers on the map, it will group them and show icon with the count of markers in each cluster - see example.
If you don't want to use marker cluster, you can disable it globally in _config.yml
:
maps:
google:
marker_cluster:
enabled: false
Or you can disable it per single map tag:
{% google_map no_cluster %}
If you have any questions or proposals - open up an issue!
Examples
Want to see it in action? Check out Demo Page!
Contributing
- Fork it (https://github.com/ayastreb/jekyll-maps/fork)
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create a new Pull Request
License
MIT. Feel free to use, copy or distribute it.