Google Maps provides powerful mapping technology that is available to use inside your own applications. In this blog, I’ll explain how you can get started using it inside an Angular web app.

Before You Start

Before you can start working with Google Maps in your Angular app, you need to get a Google Map API key, which you can do here: Get Your API Key for Google Maps

Set Up Google Maps

After getting you API key, you will need to add Google Maps to the <head> tag of your application’s index.html page so it will download the Google Maps into your application. That code will look the the following:

<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=API_KEY"></script>

Please do not forget to replace the API_KEY with your own key.

After adding the script, you will need to install the Google Maps Angular component (@angular/google-maps) using NPM, which is used as a wrapper for the Google Maps JavaScript APIs. To install the @angular/google-maps component, use the command below:

npm i @angular/google-maps

After installing the @angular/google-maps component, it is necessary to import it to the app module or component module in the application where it will be used:

import { GoogleMapsModule } from '@angular/google-maps'
...
@NgModule({
  declaration: [ ... ]
  imports: [ ..., GoogleMapsModule ],
 })
...

After all these preliminary settings, you can now add a Google Maps component in your application by using <google-map> in the HTML:

<div class="map">
  <google-map></google-map>
</div>

Google Maps’ Initial Settings

Let’s move on to setting up the map’s display. There are several parameters available for the Google Maps component, including the following:

  1. width & height
  2. mapTypeId
  3. center
  4. zoom
  5. options

When we first load the application, the default settings for centering and zooming will be used on the map.

Google Maps default coordinates
A map with the default settings

If you plan to use the map to display a specific location, you must add map settings using the [options] attribute. For example, we can add Paris as the center position of the map:

<div class="map">
  <google-map [options]="mapOptions"></google-map>
</div>
import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
  mapOptions: google.maps.MapOptions = {
    center: { lat: 48.8588548, lng: 2.347035 },
  };
}

The map now displays with its center at the specified location.

Google Maps Paris coordinates
The map centered on Paris, France

There are several ways to remove the UI buttons you don’t want. One way is to set the disableDefaultUI attribute to true. This will remove all zoom control, map type control, street view control, and fullscreen control from the map.

The other way is to set those controls to false individually. This way, you can keep what you need and remove what you don’t want:

mapOptions: google.maps.MapOptions = {
    center: { lat: 48.8588548, lng: 2.347035 },
    zoomControl: false,
    mapTypeControl: false,
    streetViewControl: false,
    fullscreenControl: false,
};
Google Maps without controls
A map with some controls hidden

Add a Marker

We can use the component to add markers to the map, which takes options and a position as input parameters. Let’s add a marker for the Eiffel Tower:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
  mapOptions: google.maps.MapOptions = {
    center: { lat: 48.8588548, lng: 2.347035 },
    zoomControl: false,
    mapTypeControl: false,
    streetViewControl: false,
    fullscreenControl: false,
  };

  markerPosition = { lat: 48.8634286, lng: 2.3114617 };
}
<div class="map">
  <google-map height="100vh"
              width="100%"
              [options]="mapOptions">
    <map-marker [position]="markerPosition"></map-marker>
  </google-map>
</div>
Google map with Paris coordinates and a marker for the Eiffel Tower
A marker on the Eiffel Tower

Conclusion

I hope that this short guide to using Google Maps will help you easily start using and configuring Google Maps.

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