Data Layer: Styling

  • This example demonstrates how to add custom shapes to a Google Map using the data layer and GeoJSON data.

  • It showcases styling these shapes by setting fill color and stroke width using map.data.setStyle().

  • The sample provides code snippets in TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML to illustrate the implementation.

  • Users can interact with a live example through provided links to JSFiddle and Google Cloud Shell.

  • Instructions for cloning and running the sample locally using Git and Node.js are included.

This example uses the data layer to add some custom shapes to a map, and shows how to apply styles to those shapes

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

let map: google.maps.Map;

function initMap(): void {
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement, {
    zoom: 4,
    center: { lat: -28, lng: 137 },
  });

  // Load GeoJSON.
  map.data.loadGeoJson(
    "https://storage.googleapis.com/mapsdevsite/json/google.json"
  );

  // Set the stroke width, and fill color for each polygon
  map.data.setStyle({
    fillColor: "green",
    strokeWeight: 1,
  });
}

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

JavaScript

let map;

function initMap() {
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    zoom: 4,
    center: { lat: -28, lng: 137 },
  });
  // Load GeoJSON.
  map.data.loadGeoJson(
    "https://storage.googleapis.com/mapsdevsite/json/google.json",
  );
  // Set the stroke width, and fill color for each polygon
  map.data.setStyle({
    fillColor: "green",
    strokeWeight: 1,
  });
}

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>Data Layer: Styling</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

Try Sample

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-layer-data-style 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