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Place Details

Page Summary

This code demonstrates the usage of the Google Maps JavaScript API's Place class to retrieve and display place details.
It fetches the place's display name, formatted address, and location using a place ID.
An advanced marker is added to the map at the place's location, displaying its name.
It utilizes asynchronous functions and the google.maps.importLibrary method to load necessary libraries.
The sample includes TypeScript and JavaScript code snippets along with HTML and CSS for displaying the map.

This example uses a place ID to create a new Place, calls Place.fetchFields requesting the displayName and formattedAddress fields, adds a marker to the map, and logs some data to the console.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

const mapElement = document.querySelector('gmp-map')!;
let innerMap: google.maps.Map;
let infoWindow: google.maps.InfoWindow;

async function init() {
    const { InfoWindow } = await google.maps.importLibrary('maps');

    innerMap = mapElement.innerMap;
    infoWindow = new InfoWindow();
    void getPlaceDetails();
}

async function getPlaceDetails() {
    const [{ Place }, { AdvancedMarkerElement }] = await Promise.all([
        google.maps.importLibrary('places'),
        google.maps.importLibrary('marker'),
    ]);

    // Use place ID to create a new Place instance.
    const place = new Place({
        id: 'ChIJyYB_SZVU2YARR-I1Jjf08F0', // San Diego Zoo
    });

    // Call fetchFields, passing the desired data fields.
    await place.fetchFields({
        fields: [
            'displayName',
            'formattedAddress',
            'location',
            'googleMapsURI',
        ],
    });

    // Add an Advanced Marker
    const marker = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
        map: innerMap,
        position: place.location,
        title: place.displayName,
    });

    // Assemble the info window content.
    const content = document.createElement('div');
    const address = document.createElement('div');
    const placeId = document.createElement('div');
    address.textContent = place.formattedAddress || '';
    placeId.textContent = place.id;
    content.append(placeId, address);

    if (place.googleMapsURI) {
        const link = document.createElement('a');
        link.href = place.googleMapsURI;
        link.target = '_blank';
        link.textContent = 'View Details on Google Maps';
        content.appendChild(link);
    }

    // Display an info window.
    infoWindow.setHeaderContent(place.displayName);
    infoWindow.setContent(content);
    infoWindow.open({
        anchor: marker,
    });
}

void init();index.ts

JavaScript

const mapElement = document.querySelector('gmp-map');
let innerMap;
let infoWindow;

async function init() {
    const { InfoWindow } = await google.maps.importLibrary('maps');

    innerMap = mapElement.innerMap;
    infoWindow = new InfoWindow();
    void getPlaceDetails();
}

async function getPlaceDetails() {
    const [{ Place }, { AdvancedMarkerElement }] = await Promise.all([
        google.maps.importLibrary('places'),
        google.maps.importLibrary('marker'),
    ]);

    // Use place ID to create a new Place instance.
    const place = new Place({
        id: 'ChIJyYB_SZVU2YARR-I1Jjf08F0', // San Diego Zoo
    });

    // Call fetchFields, passing the desired data fields.
    await place.fetchFields({
        fields: [
            'displayName',
            'formattedAddress',
            'location',
            'googleMapsURI',
        ],
    });

    // Add an Advanced Marker
    const marker = new AdvancedMarkerElement({
        map: innerMap,
        position: place.location,
        title: place.displayName,
    });

    // Assemble the info window content.
    const content = document.createElement('div');
    const address = document.createElement('div');
    const placeId = document.createElement('div');
    address.textContent = place.formattedAddress || '';
    placeId.textContent = place.id;
    content.append(placeId, address);

    if (place.googleMapsURI) {
        const link = document.createElement('a');
        link.href = place.googleMapsURI;
        link.target = '_blank';
        link.textContent = 'View Details on Google Maps';
        content.appendChild(link);
    }

    // Display an info window.
    infoWindow.setHeaderContent(place.displayName);
    infoWindow.setContent(content);
    infoWindow.open({
        anchor: marker,
    });
}

void init();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>Place Class</title>

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
        <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
        <script>
            // prettier-ignore
            (g=>{var h,a,k,p="The Google Maps JavaScript API",c="google",l="importLibrary",q="__ib__",m=document,b=window;b=b[c]||(b[c]={});var d=b.maps||(b.maps={}),r=new Set,e=new URLSearchParams,u=()=>h||(h=new Promise(async(f,n)=>{await (a=m.createElement("script"));e.set("libraries",[...r]+"");for(k in g)e.set(k.replace(/[A-Z]/g,t=>"_"+t[0].toLowerCase()),g[k]);e.set("callback",c+".maps."+q);a.src=`https://maps.${c}apis.com/maps/api/js?`+e;d[q]=f;a.onerror=()=>h=n(Error(p+" could not load."));a.nonce=m.querySelector("script[nonce]")?.nonce||"";m.head.append(a)}));d[l]?console.warn(p+" only loads once. Ignoring:",g):d[l]=(f,...n)=>r.add(f)&&u().then(()=>d[l](f,...n))})({
                key: "GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY"
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <gmp-map center="32.7360353,-117.1509849" zoom="14" map-id="DEMO_MAP_ID"
            ><!-- Map id is required for Advanced Markers. -->
        </gmp-map>
    </body>
</html>index.html

Clone Sample

Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. You will also need a Google Maps API key.

The following commands clone the repository, install dependencies, and copy the environment file.

  git clone https://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.git
  cd js-api-samples
  npm i
  cp .env.template .env

Once you copy the environment file, make sure to open the .env file and replace <Insert your own development API key here> with your actual API key before starting the sample.

  cd samples/place-class
  npm start