Dynamic Maps

Next-level map customization

Welcome to a whole new level of map customization, interaction, and visualization.

Android

iOS

Save time and resources

Quickly create, test, and deploy custom maps.

Over 250 customizations

Create custom detailed maps that truly fit your business.

More engaging experiences

Find new ways to set your brand apart.

Discover cloud-based maps styling

Advanced customization capabilities

Fine-tune your maps to fit your specific business and user needs, with hundreds more customization types than in Google’s client-styled maps.

Next generation map visualization

Create immersive 3D mapping experiences with features like WebGL Overlay View and Tilt & Rotation.

Update everywhere, without writing code

Create a consistent user experience by simultaneously deploying updates across all platforms, without writing a line of code.

Included with Maps Javascript API and available for Android SDK and iOS SDK.

Easily create custom interactive markers

Make markers your own

Change the color, background, icon, and outline of the Google Maps red pin, and create custom markers with SVGs, PNGs or HTML elements. Do it all directly in your code, with no image needed.

Improved marker performance

Advanced markers can load up to 66% faster than our traditional markers, and provide faster panning and zooming,¹ while supporting fast load times for a larger amount of markers.

Marker collision management

Choose which markers are displayed at each zoom level, and control how your markers interact with each other.

Style your data with data-driven styling

Save developer resources

Store and manage your geospatial data via the Google Cloud console, and let Google curate, update and manage boundary data for you.

Enhance your data with polygons

Display and style Google’s polygons for administrative boundaries, with or without your own data.

Style your geospatial data

Visualize and style your geospatial data as points, lines and polygons on your maps.

Design with boundaries

Learn about styling Google’s boundaries to convey key information.

Visualize datasets

Now you can style your geospatial data as points, lines, and polygons.

Advanced customization

Business POI filtering

Decide which types of business to show on your map, based on relevance to your customers.

POI density control

Tailor the number of points of interest on your map, to provide more information or make the map cleaner.

Commercial corridor styling

Change the color of commercial corridors to add more visual context to your maps.

Detailed street maps

Make maps more detailed with sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic lights, and more.

Landmark icons

Help users quickly find important landmarks in 100 cities around the world, to highlight and promote prominent tourist attractions.

Enhanced natural features

Apply styles to previously unstylable map elements, such as forests and deserts, to create a richer experience for your users.

Industry-optimized map styles

Customize pre-configured, optimized maps for the travel, real estate, retail and logistics industries.

Advanced markers

Easily create highly customized, faster performance markers that provide a richer user experience and showcase your brand.

Data-driven styling

Display and style customized maps based on your tabular datasets, Google’s administrative boundary data, or your own business data.

Powerful map visualizations

WebGL overlay view for Javascript

Render 2D and 3D objects with perspective directly on the basemap.

Vector maps

Get faster map loads, smoother zooming and panning, and efficient caching. Also enables marker collision management.

Tilt & rotation

Help users explore and navigate maps at multiple angles.

Other Dynamic Maps features

Map types

Choose between road, satellite, hybrid, terrain, and custom maps.

Shapes

Draw a variety of shapes on the map with built-in functions, including polylines and polygons.

Markers

Display the default Google Maps marker, or add your own custom-styled markers.

How you can use it

Help people find your locations

Whether it’s a brick-and-mortar shop, ATM, food truck, or just a parking space, Cloud-based maps styling can make it easier for your customers to find what you’re pointing them to.

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Highlight what’s near your business

Help customers see what there is to do in the area around your business – like pharmacies, car charging stations, or coffee shops.

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Show off a neighborhood

Cloud-based maps styling makes it easy for customers to understand what the neighborhood is like around a house, apartment, or hotel, through customized points of interest and 3D visualizations.

Create engaging branded experiences

Create custom map-based experiences for a promotion or event that match the look and feel of your brand.

Explore demos with Dynamic Maps

Create immersive experiences with Photorealistic 3D Maps in JavaScript

See how JavaScript developers can deliver 3D Maps at scale, starting with a single line of code.

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Customize your maps with data-driven styling

Easily access, display, and style Google’s polygons for administrative boundaries, or use your own geospatial data to create your own points, lines, and polygons.

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Make customized map markers

Experience creating your own advanced markers. In this demo you can customize the iconic Google Maps red pin, create custom markers from images, and programmatically customize your own markers.

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Take cloud-based maps styling for a test drive

Try it out and see how quickly you can create highly customized maps without writing code.

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Create immersive 3D mapping experiences with WebGL

Learn how WebGL-powered maps features for the Maps JavaScript API give you unprecedented control of the vector basemap.

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Travel the world in this interactive WebGL-powered demo

See how different the world can be when you can control and render on the map in three dimensions.

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See how digital twins can be implemented using WebGL with 3D

UbiLabs created a demo, “Moving Hamburg,” to show how digital twins can be used to perform digital analyses and scenarios before being put to the test in the real world.

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Data-driven styling for datasets and the Maps Datasets API allows our clients to manage, display, and style complex geospatial data without the expensive infrastructure or custom code. This results in cost savings, and a better experience for their users.

Martin Kleppe

Co-founder of Ubilabs, Google Maps Platform Partner

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With data-driven styling, Realtors® can now easily search and visualize market trends on a map, which helps them serve their clients better. Our nationwide real estate database, enhanced with data-driven styling, produces powerful insights with minimal effort.

Janine Sieja

SVP Product, Realtors® Property Resource

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We wanted an immersive experience that would let Elton share his connection to Los Angeles with his fans. Using Google Maps Platform, we were able to style the basemap, add advanced markers, and use WebGL-powered map features to match the visual design of our broader L.A. experience.

Rory Newton Dunn

Head of Digital, Rocket Entertainment

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With previous mapping solutions, customization and data management was a challenge. Advanced markers improved our user experience and streamlined our workflow, resulting in increased engagement.

Alvaro Garrido

IT Director, Fr8Tech

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