You can add google latitude to the map. Goto the page: http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge and set the correct settings and copy the public kml-feed as url for the plugin. Best is to add centerlat/lon and zoom level to prevent to see grey tiles or use version 2.12o with correction on automatic zoom.

For example:

{mosmap kml='http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge/api?user=xxxxxxxxxx&type=kml'|corzoom='-4'}

Other option is to add your latitudeid as a parameter for better security:

{mosmap latitudeid='xxxxxx'|latitudedesc='1'|latitudecoord='1'}

Extra parameters are:

• latitudedesc - Show latitude description in infowindow
• latitudecoord - Show coordinates in infowindow

You can write an own php program to show a page and incorporate this page in Joomla by a wrapper or use the code in a plugin that can execute php. Thanks to Kelly Courtney/

The code is:

<?php 
function file_get_contents_curl($url) 
  {
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  return $data;
  }

// No Caching
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: no-cache");

// Refreshes pages after 60 seconds  
 header("Refresh: 60;");

// Get Data from Google (must be allowed in php.ini: allow_url_fopen = 1 or  allow_url_fopen = On) 
// Replace XXXX with your personal user id from Google.

$datastring = file_get_contents('http://www.google.de/latitude/apps/badge/api?user=XXXXXXXX&type=kml'); 
// Or use curl:
$datastring = file_get_contents_curl('http://www.google.de/latitude/apps/badge/api?user=XXXXXXXX&type=kml');

// String Operations
// Find String in between...
function get_string_between($string, $start, $end)
{
    $string = " ".$string;
    $ini = strpos($string,$start);
    if ($ini == 0) return "";
    $ini += strlen($start);
    $len = strpos($string,$end,$ini) - $ini;
    return substr($string,$ini,$len);
}
 
// Get Coordinates
$coordinates = get_string_between($datastring, "<coordinates>", "</coordinates>");

// Extract coordinates as they are separated with a comma
$token = strtok($coordinates, ",");

while ($token != false)
  {
  if ($token != Null) {$array[] = $token;} else {$array[] = ' ';}
  $token = strtok(",");
  } 
// Print the GPS coordinates on the screen
// echo "Longitude: ".$array[0]." Latitude: ".$array[1];

// Small table for the coordinates (my style):
$tabelle = "<table border=\"0\"><tbody><tr><td>GPS: </td><td>Latitude </td><td>Longitude</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>".$array[1]."</td><td>".$array[0]."</td></tr></tbody></table>";

// Get the description of the KML-File
$description = get_string_between($datastring, "<description>", " http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge</description>");

// Alternative: $description = str_replace(' http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge', '', $description);

// Combine the strings for the textfield
$string_neu = "<div style=\"width:220px; height:90px;\"><b>Name</b><br />".$description."<br />".$tabelle."</div>";

// Replace all " within the string with HTML-character
$string_neu = str_replace('"','&quot;',$string_neu);

// User Name (can be the Joomla User Name) 
echo "<b>Hello Name, </b>";

// Display the map
echo "<p>{mosmap width='650'|height='525'|zoom='16'|align='center'|mapType='Hybrid'|icon='http://yourwebsite/images/stories/latitude_marker.png'|iconwidth='30'|iconheight='38'|text='".$string_neu."'|zoomWheel='1'|zoomtype='3D-largeSV'|showMaptype='1'|overview='1'|tooltip='GPS-Daten'|marker='0'|lat='".$array[1]."'|lon='".$array[0]."'}</p>";

?>

This hides the latitude id from the visitors of the website so better privacy.

You can change the icon by using the custom icon configuration or params of the plugin.