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$().mapbox
Mapbox is a plugin for creating zooming, draggable maps of limited size and depth, which have a defined boundary. It has many methods such as the ability to center the map on any given point, zoom in or out, zoom to any particular level, and move in any direction. All of these may also be accomplished either by dragging the map or with the mousewheel in conjunction with the mousewheel plugin.
An example may be seen at http://wayfarerweb.com/jquery/plugins/mapbox/ along with all of the configuration details and external methods.
Contained within a "viewport", each map has the potential for as many layers as is possible performance wise, with the zooming detail being able to be configured in the settings, depending on the smoothness needed (number of transitions) between each layer. It reproduces a Flash app I needed to replace, with the advantage of being much more portable, since it uses natural static HTML elements.
Currently a beta, Mapbox has been used in production for a custom real estate development map, with hard boundaries, that is dragged, zoomed in on, and contains lots of custom data and elements.
Mapbox is usually used like this:
$(viewport).mapbox({mousewheel: true});
