Setup in the Cloud Console
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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
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Create a new Google Cloud project in the Cloud Console:
Create new project
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On the New Project page, fill in the your Project Name, Project ID, Billing Account, and Location.
Select Create.
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
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Last updated 2025-02-07 UTC.
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