Hiding Map Features With Styling

  • This example demonstrates how to hide or show specific map features like business POIs and transit icons using map styling in Google Maps.

  • Users can interactively control the visibility of these features through provided controls.

  • The sample code utilizes JSON styles to define the appearance of map elements, including their visibility.

  • You can explore the functionality further by trying the sample on JSFiddle or Google Cloud Shell and even clone the sample code for local execution.

You can use map styling to hide features on the map. Select an option in this example to hide or show business points of interest (POIs) and public transit icons on the map.

Read the documentation .

TypeScript

 async 
  
 function 
  
 initMap 
 () 
  
 { 
  
 // Request needed libraries. 
  
 ( 
 await 
  
 google 
 . 
 maps 
 . 
 importLibrary 
 ( 
 'maps' 
 )) 
  
 as 
  
 google 
 . 
 maps 
 . 
 MapsLibrary 
 ; 
  
 // Get the gmp-map element. 
  
 const 
  
 mapElement 
  
 = 
  
 document 
 . 
 querySelector 
 ( 
  
 'gmp-map' 
  
 ) 
  
 as 
  
 google 
 . 
 maps 
 . 
 MapElement 
 ; 
  
 // Get the inner map. 
  
 const 
  
 innerMap 
  
 = 
  
 mapElement 
 . 
 innerMap 
 ; 
  
 innerMap 
 . 
 setOptions 
 ({ 
  
 mapTypeControl 
 : 
  
 false 
 , 
  
 // A map's styles property can only be set on a raster map. 
  
 renderingType 
 : 
  
 google.maps.RenderingType.RASTER 
 , 
  
 }); 
  
 // Apply new JSON when the user chooses to hide/show features. 
  
 ( 
 document 
 . 
 getElementById 
 ( 
 'hide-poi' 
 ) 
  
 as 
  
 HTMLElement 
 ). 
 addEventListener 
 ( 
  
 'click' 
 , 
  
 () 
  
 = 
>  
 { 
  
 innerMap 
 . 
 setOptions 
 ({ 
  
 styles 
 : 
  
 styles 
 [ 
 'hide' 
 ] 
  
 }); 
  
 } 
  
 ); 
  
 ( 
 document 
 . 
 getElementById 
 ( 
 'show-poi' 
 ) 
  
 as 
  
 HTMLElement 
 ). 
 addEventListener 
 ( 
  
 'click' 
 , 
  
 () 
  
 = 
>  
 { 
  
 innerMap 
 . 
 setOptions 
 ({ 
  
 styles 
 : 
  
 styles 
 [ 
 'default' 
 ] 
  
 }); 
  
 } 
  
 ); 
 } 
 const 
  
 styles 
 : 
  
 Record<string 
 , 
  
 google 
 . 
 maps 
 . 
 MapTypeStyle 
 [] 
>  
 = 
  
 { 
  
 default 
 : 
  
 [], 
  
 hide 
 : 
  
 [ 
  
 { 
  
 featureType 
 : 
  
 'poi.business' 
 , 
  
 stylers 
 : 
  
 [{ 
  
 visibility 
 : 
  
 'off' 
  
 }], 
  
 }, 
  
 { 
  
 featureType 
 : 
  
 'transit' 
 , 
  
 elementType 
 : 
  
 'labels.icon' 
 , 
  
 stylers 
 : 
  
 [{ 
  
 visibility 
 : 
  
 'off' 
  
 }], 
  
 }, 
  
 ], 
 }; 
 initMap 
 (); 
  

JavaScript

 async 
  
 function 
  
 initMap 
 () 
  
 { 
  
 // Request needed libraries. 
  
 ( 
 await 
  
 google 
 . 
 maps 
 . 
 importLibrary 
 ( 
 'maps' 
 )); 
  
 // Get the gmp-map element. 
  
 const 
  
 mapElement 
  
 = 
  
 document 
 . 
 querySelector 
 ( 
 'gmp-map' 
 ); 
  
 // Get the inner map. 
  
 const 
  
 innerMap 
  
 = 
  
 mapElement 
 . 
 innerMap 
 ; 
  
 innerMap 
 . 
 setOptions 
 ({ 
  
 mapTypeControl 
 : 
  
 false 
 , 
  
 // A map's styles property can only be set on a raster map. 
  
 renderingType 
 : 
  
 google 
 . 
 maps 
 . 
 RenderingType 
 . 
 RASTER 
 , 
  
 }); 
  
 // Apply new JSON when the user chooses to hide/show features. 
  
 document 
 . 
 getElementById 
 ( 
 'hide-poi' 
 ). 
 addEventListener 
 ( 
 'click' 
 , 
  
 () 
  
 = 
>  
 { 
  
 innerMap 
 . 
 setOptions 
 ({ 
  
 styles 
 : 
  
 styles 
 [ 
 'hide' 
 ] 
  
 }); 
  
 }); 
  
 document 
 . 
 getElementById 
 ( 
 'show-poi' 
 ). 
 addEventListener 
 ( 
 'click' 
 , 
  
 () 
  
 = 
>  
 { 
  
 innerMap 
 . 
 setOptions 
 ({ 
  
 styles 
 : 
  
 styles 
 [ 
 'default' 
 ] 
  
 }); 
  
 }); 
 } 
 const 
  
 styles 
  
 = 
  
 { 
  
 default 
 : 
  
 [], 
  
 hide 
 : 
  
 [ 
  
 { 
  
 featureType 
 : 
  
 'poi.business' 
 , 
  
 stylers 
 : 
  
 [{ 
  
 visibility 
 : 
  
 'off' 
  
 }], 
  
 }, 
  
 { 
  
 featureType 
 : 
  
 'transit' 
 , 
  
 elementType 
 : 
  
 'labels.icon' 
 , 
  
 stylers 
 : 
  
 [{ 
  
 visibility 
 : 
  
 'off' 
  
 }], 
  
 }, 
  
 ], 
 }; 
 initMap 
 (); 
  

CSS

 /* 
 * Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. 
 */ 
 html 
 , 
 body 
  
 { 
  
 height 
 : 
  
 100 
 % 
 ; 
  
 margin 
 : 
  
 0 
 ; 
  
 padding 
 : 
  
 0 
 ; 
 } 
 . 
 map-control 
  
 { 
  
 background-color 
 : 
  
 #fff 
 ; 
  
 border-radius 
 : 
  
 5 
 px 
 ; 
  
 box-shadow 
 : 
  
 rgba 
 ( 
 0 
 , 
  
 0 
 , 
  
 0 
 , 
  
 0.35 
 ) 
  
 0 
 px 
  
 5 
 px 
  
 15 
 px 
 ; 
  
 margin 
 : 
  
 10 
 px 
 ; 
  
 padding 
 : 
  
 5 
 px 
 ; 
  
 font-family 
 : 
  
 Roboto 
 , 
  
 sans-serif 
 ; 
  
 font-size 
 : 
  
 small 
 ; 
  
 display 
 : 
  
 block 
 ; 
 } 
 . 
 selector-control 
  
 { 
  
 font-size 
 : 
  
 14 
 px 
 ; 
  
 line-height 
 : 
  
 30 
 px 
 ; 
  
 vertical-align 
 : 
  
 baseline 
 ; 
 } 
  

HTML

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Hiding Map Features With Styling</title>

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
        <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
        <!-- prettier-ignore -->
        <script>(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", v: "weekly" });</script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <gmp-map center="-33.86,151.209" zoom="13">
            <div id="style-selector-control" class="map-control" slot="control-block-start-inline-start">
                <input
                    type="radio"
                    name="show-hide"
                    id="hide-poi"
                    class="selector-control" />
                <label for="hide-poi">Hide</label>
                <input
                    type="radio"
                    name="show-hide"
                    id="show-poi"
                    class="selector-control"
                    checked="checked" />
                <label for="show-poi">Show</label>
            </div>
        </gmp-map>
    </body>
</html>  

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Clone Sample

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 
 / 
 hiding 
 - 
 features 
 
  
  npm 
  
 i 
 
  
  npm 
  
 start 
 
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