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Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook

You're reading from   Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook This book will help you use the amazing resource that is Google Maps to your own ends. From showing maps on mobiles to creating GIS applications, this lively, recipe-packed guide is all you need.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849698825
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Google Maps JavaScript API Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Adding Raster Layers 3. Adding Vector Layers 4. Working with Controls 5. Understanding Google Maps JavaScript API Events 6. Google Maps JavaScript Libraries 7. Working with Services 8. Mastering the Google Maps JavaScript API through Advanced Recipes Index

Styling of Google base maps


Google base maps show a variety of details such as water bodies (oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, and so on), roads, parks, and built-up areas (residential, industrial, and so on). As you have observed in the first chapter, all these are shown in predefined cartographic parameters. With the styling capability of base maps, you have a virtually unlimited set of choices in terms of the cartographic representation of base maps.

In your web or mobile applications, it is very beneficial to have a diversity of representations (in all different color schemes with different emphasis) in order to keep your audience more involved; maps blend neatly into your website design.

This recipe will guide you through the process of changing the styling of base maps.

Getting ready

We can continue from the Creating a simple map in a custom DIV element recipe from Chapter 1, Google Maps JavaScript API Basics, as we do not need to recall the basics of creating the map.

How to do it…

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