I have not had a chance to write up my adventures in D7 mapping, but here is a good blog post >> http://webwash.net/articles/handling-addresses-and-locations-drupal-7

I also found another quick way to just add a map display to a node… >> OSTraining

It uses the http://drupal.org/project/addressfield_staticmap module which partially solves my issue of having a map on the node display.