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Camera Position

The following example demonstrates how to position the camera using the center option.

Read the documentation .

CSS

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   style 
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HTML

<html>
    <head>
        <title>3D Camera Position</title>

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
        <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
        <script>
            // prettier-ignore
            (g=>{var h,a,k,p="The Google Maps JavaScript API",c="google",l="importLibrary",q="__ib__",m=document,b=window;b=b[c]||(b[c]={});var d=b.maps||(b.maps={}),r=new Set,e=new URLSearchParams,u=()=>h||(h=new Promise(async(f,n)=>{await (a=m.createElement("script"));e.set("libraries",[...r]+"");for(k in g)e.set(k.replace(/[A-Z]/g,t=>"_"+t[0].toLowerCase()),g[k]);e.set("callback",c+".maps."+q);a.src=`https://maps.${c}apis.com/maps/api/js?`+e;d[q]=f;a.onerror=()=>h=n(Error(p+" could not load."));a.nonce=m.querySelector("script[nonce]")?.nonce||"";m.head.append(a)}));d[l]?console.warn(p+" only loads once. Ignoring:",g):d[l]=(f,...n)=>r.add(f)&&u().then(()=>d[l](f,...n))})({
                key: "AIzaSyA6myHzS10YXdcazAFalmXvDkrYCp5cLc8" 
            });
        </script>
    </head>

    <body>
        <gmp-map-3d
            center="40.7860524,-73.9634983"
            range="1500"
            tilt="70"
            heading="-150"
            mode="satellite">
            <gmp-marker
                position="40.7860524,-73.9634983"
                altitude-mode="clamp-to-ground"></gmp-marker>
        </gmp-map-3d>

        <div id="ui-container">
            <button id="switch-mode-btn" type="button">
                Switch to Camera Position
            </button>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>  index.html

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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 
  
 https 
 : 
 //github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.git 
 
  
  cd 
  
 samples 
 / 
 3 
 d 
 - 
 camera 
 - 
 center 
 
  
  npm 
  
 i 
 
  
  npm 
  
 start

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