How To Practise Styled Google Maps

Yesterday I wrote close Six of the Best Mapbox Styles. Today I idea it powerfulness last interesting to expect at styling maps amongst the Google Maps API. While the Styled Maps feature inwards the JavaScript Map API is nowhere close every bit powerful every bit Tilemill or Mapbox Studio it does permit developers to command to a greater extent than or less blueprint elements of a Google Map, such every bit defining the colors of map features.


H5N1 skilful instance of what tin last achieved amongst the Styled Maps characteristic is Yarr, Pirate Maps. Yarr, Pirate Maps uses a few clever tricks to exercise a distinct pirate themed design, consummate amongst animated waves, birds together with pirate ships.

The colored map tiles are created using the Google Maps API Styled Maps feature. The styled map is augmented past times a few other non-Styled Map features. For example, the newspaper looking number is created past times using a number of background images together with z-index on the map. The animated waves, birds together with ships on the map are achieved past times using animated gifs every bit map markers.


If you lot desire to purpose a styled Google Map together with hence your best bet is belike to firstly amongst having a expect at styles that convey already been created past times other users. Luckily a groovy repository of laid made Google Maps styles already exists.

Snazzy Maps is a collection of unlike styles for Google Maps. You tin browse through the many instance map styles on Snazzy Maps past times the 'most popular' together with 'most recent'. You tin also filter the maps shown past times a number of useful tags, such every bit 'dark', 'light', 'two-tone' etc.

Map developers contribute to the repository past times adding map styles that they convey created themselves. Once you lot discovery a map means that you lot similar you lot tin click on its championship together with view the means array. Snazzy Maps fifty-fifty provides an option to download a uncomplicated instance of each style.


If you lot desire to firstly from scratch together with exercise your ain Google Maps means together with hence you lot tin purpose Google's Styled Maps Wizard. The sorcerer allows developers to play amongst the colors together with styles of private map elements together with exercise the JSON code that tin together with hence last used amongst the Google Maps API.

Other, tertiary party, means wizards also be to help you lot exercise your ain Google Maps styles. Map Stylr, Think Tank's Custom Google Maps Style Tool together with Google Maps Colorizr are all groovy means wizards designed to help making your ain map styles every bit slow every bit selecting map features together with selecting your favorite colors.

If you lot desire to a greater extent than inspiration for creating your ain Google Maps styles together with hence you lot tin also convey a expect through to a greater extent than or less of the groovy map styles previously featured on past times using the Styled Maps tag.