45° Imagery

  • This example demonstrates how to display a Google Map with satellite imagery tilted at a 45-degree angle.

  • The code utilizes the Google Maps JavaScript API and can be implemented using either JavaScript or TypeScript.

  • It involves setting the mapTypeId to "satellite" and using the setTilt function to achieve the desired angle.

  • The HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript code snippets are provided for easy integration into web pages.

  • Users can explore the sample interactively through JSFiddle or Google Cloud Shell, or clone the sample code for local execution.

This example creates a map with satellite imagery enabled, tilted at 45 degrees.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

function initMap(): void {
  const map = new google.maps.Map(
    document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement,
    {
      center: { lat: 40.76, lng: -73.983 },
      zoom: 15,
      mapTypeId: "satellite",
    }
  );

  map.setTilt(45);
}

declare global {
  interface Window {
    initMap: () => void;
  }
}
window.initMap = initMap;
index.ts

JavaScript

function initMap() {
  const map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    center: { lat: 40.76, lng: -73.983 },
    zoom: 15,
    mapTypeId: "satellite",
  });

  map.setTilt(45);
}

window.initMap = initMap;
index.js

CSS

/* 
 * Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div element
 * that contains the map. 
 */
#map {
  height: 100%;
}

/* 
 * Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. 
 */
html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>45° Imagery</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <!-- 
      The `defer` attribute causes the script to execute after the full HTML
      document has been parsed. For non-blocking uses, avoiding race conditions,
      and consistent behavior across browsers, consider loading using Promises. See
      https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/load-maps-js-api
      for more information.
      -->
    <script
      src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg&callback=initMap&v=weekly"
      defer
    ></script>
  </body>
</html>
index.html

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Clone Sample

Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. The following commands clone, install dependencies and start the sample application. 

  git clone -b sample-aerial-simple https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples.git
  cd js-samples
  npm i
  npm start

Other samples can be tried by switching to any branch beginning with sample-SAMPLE_NAME. 

  git checkout sample-SAMPLE_NAME
  npm i
  npm start