Setup in the Cloud Console

  • To use Google Maps Platform, you need a project to manage services, credentials, billing, and APIs; you can use an existing project or create a new one for Data Driven Styling.

  • Creating a new Google Cloud project involves providing a project name, ID, billing account, and location in the Cloud Console or using the gcloud projects create command.

  • After project creation, enable the Maps Datasets API on your project using the gcloud services enable mapsplatformdatasets.googleapis.com command in Cloud Shell.

Create a project

To use Google Maps Platform, you must have a project to manage services, credentials, billing, APIs, and SDKs. For the Data Driven Styling for Datasets functionality, you may use an existing project or create a new one.

To create a Cloud project:

Console

  1. Create a new Google Cloud project in the Cloud Console:

    Create new project

  2. On the New Project page, fill in the your Project Name, Project ID, Billing Account, and Location.

  3. Select Create.

gcloud

gcloud projects create "PROJECT"

Read more about the Google Cloud SDK , Cloud SDK installation , and the following commands:

Enable the API on your test GCP Project

Make sure you are in your test GCP project. Browse to the Cloud shell and run the following command to enable the Maps Datasets API. 

gcloud services enable mapsplatformdatasets.googleapis.com

A screenshot showing how to run the command in the GCP shell