Polygon Auto-Completion

  • This example demonstrates the automatic closure of polygons when using the Google Maps JavaScript API.

  • You only need to define three coordinates for the polygon, as the API automatically connects the last point to the first.

  • The example uses a simple polygon representing the Bermuda Triangle to illustrate this behavior.

  • Both JavaScript and TypeScript code snippets are provided to showcase the implementation.

  • The sample webpage uses CSS to ensure the map fills the window and HTML to structure the content and load the Google Maps API.

This example creates a map with a simple polygon, to demonstrate the autoclose behavior for polygons. Note that only three coordinates are defined. There's no need to specify the final coordinates to complete the polygon, because the Google Maps JavaScript API will automatically draw the closing side.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

// This example creates a simple polygon representing the Bermuda Triangle. Note
// that the code specifies only three LatLng coordinates for the polygon. The
// API automatically draws a stroke connecting the last LatLng back to the first
// LatLng.

function initMap(): void {
  const map = new google.maps.Map(
    document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement,
    {
      zoom: 5,
      center: { lat: 24.886, lng: -70.268 },
      mapTypeId: "terrain",
    }
  );

  // Define the LatLng coordinates for the polygon's path. Note that there's
  // no need to specify the final coordinates to complete the polygon, because
  // The Google Maps JavaScript API will automatically draw the closing side.
  const triangleCoords = [
    { lat: 25.774, lng: -80.19 },
    { lat: 18.466, lng: -66.118 },
    { lat: 32.321, lng: -64.757 },
  ];

  const bermudaTriangle = new google.maps.Polygon({
    paths: triangleCoords,
    strokeColor: "#FF0000",
    strokeOpacity: 0.8,
    strokeWeight: 3,
    fillColor: "#FF0000",
    fillOpacity: 0.35,
  });

  bermudaTriangle.setMap(map);
}

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

JavaScript

// This example creates a simple polygon representing the Bermuda Triangle. Note
// that the code specifies only three LatLng coordinates for the polygon. The
// API automatically draws a stroke connecting the last LatLng back to the first
// LatLng.
function initMap() {
  const map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    zoom: 5,
    center: { lat: 24.886, lng: -70.268 },
    mapTypeId: "terrain",
  });
  // Define the LatLng coordinates for the polygon's path. Note that there's
  // no need to specify the final coordinates to complete the polygon, because
  // The Google Maps JavaScript API will automatically draw the closing side.
  const triangleCoords = [
    { lat: 25.774, lng: -80.19 },
    { lat: 18.466, lng: -66.118 },
    { lat: 32.321, lng: -64.757 },
  ];
  const bermudaTriangle = new google.maps.Polygon({
    paths: triangleCoords,
    strokeColor: "#FF0000",
    strokeOpacity: 0.8,
    strokeWeight: 3,
    fillColor: "#FF0000",
    fillOpacity: 0.35,
  });

  bermudaTriangle.setMap(map);
}

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>Polygon Auto-Completion</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-polygon-autoclose 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