Image Map Types

  • This example demonstrates how to create a custom map type using images of the moon's surface.

  • It uses the ImageMapType class to define the map type and getTileUrl function to fetch image tiles.

  • The example provides code in both JavaScript and TypeScript.

  • The map is initialized with a center point at latitude 0 and longitude 0, with an initial zoom level of 1.

This example uses image tiles of the moon's surface to create a map.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

function initMap(): void {
  const map = new google.maps.Map(
    document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement,
    {
      center: { lat: 0, lng: 0 },
      zoom: 1,
      streetViewControl: false,
      mapTypeControlOptions: {
        mapTypeIds: ["moon"],
      },
    }
  );

  const moonMapType = new google.maps.ImageMapType({
    getTileUrl: function (coord, zoom): string {
      const normalizedCoord = getNormalizedCoord(coord, zoom);

      if (!normalizedCoord) {
        return "";
      }

      const bound = Math.pow(2, zoom);
      return (
        "https://mw1.google.com/mw-planetary/lunar/lunarmaps_v1/clem_bw" +
        "/" +
        zoom +
        "/" +
        normalizedCoord.x +
        "/" +
        (bound - normalizedCoord.y - 1) +
        ".jpg"
      );
    },
    tileSize: new google.maps.Size(256, 256),
    maxZoom: 9,
    minZoom: 0,
    // @ts-ignore TODO 'radius' does not exist in type 'ImageMapTypeOptions'
    radius: 1738000,
    name: "Moon",
  });

  map.mapTypes.set("moon", moonMapType);
  map.setMapTypeId("moon");
}

// Normalizes the coords that tiles repeat across the x axis (horizontally)
// like the standard Google map tiles.
function getNormalizedCoord(coord, zoom) {
  const y = coord.y;
  let x = coord.x;

  // tile range in one direction range is dependent on zoom level
  // 0 = 1 tile, 1 = 2 tiles, 2 = 4 tiles, 3 = 8 tiles, etc
  const tileRange = 1 << zoom;

  // don't repeat across y-axis (vertically)
  if (y < 0 || y >= tileRange) {
    return null;
  }

  // repeat across x-axis
  if (x < 0 || x >= tileRange) {
    x = ((x % tileRange) + tileRange) % tileRange;
  }

  return { x: x, y: y };
}

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: 0, lng: 0 },
    zoom: 1,
    streetViewControl: false,
    mapTypeControlOptions: {
      mapTypeIds: ["moon"],
    },
  });
  const moonMapType = new google.maps.ImageMapType({
    getTileUrl: function (coord, zoom) {
      const normalizedCoord = getNormalizedCoord(coord, zoom);

      if (!normalizedCoord) {
        return "";
      }

      const bound = Math.pow(2, zoom);
      return (
        "https://mw1.google.com/mw-planetary/lunar/lunarmaps_v1/clem_bw" +
        "/" +
        zoom +
        "/" +
        normalizedCoord.x +
        "/" +
        (bound - normalizedCoord.y - 1) +
        ".jpg"
      );
    },
    tileSize: new google.maps.Size(256, 256),
    maxZoom: 9,
    minZoom: 0,
    // @ts-ignore TODO 'radius' does not exist in type 'ImageMapTypeOptions'
    radius: 1738000,
    name: "Moon",
  });

  map.mapTypes.set("moon", moonMapType);
  map.setMapTypeId("moon");
}

// Normalizes the coords that tiles repeat across the x axis (horizontally)
// like the standard Google map tiles.
function getNormalizedCoord(coord, zoom) {
  const y = coord.y;
  let x = coord.x;
  // tile range in one direction range is dependent on zoom level
  // 0 = 1 tile, 1 = 2 tiles, 2 = 4 tiles, 3 = 8 tiles, etc
  const tileRange = 1 << zoom;

  // don't repeat across y-axis (vertically)
  if (y < 0 || y >= tileRange) {
    return null;
  }

  // repeat across x-axis
  if (x < 0 || x >= tileRange) {
    x = ((x % tileRange) + tileRange) % tileRange;
  }
  return { x: x, y: y };
}

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>Image Map Types</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-maptype-image 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