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Place Details

  • This code demonstrates the usage of the Google Maps JavaScript API's Place class to retrieve and display place details.

  • It fetches the place's display name, formatted address, and location using a place ID.

  • An advanced marker is added to the map at the place's location, displaying its name.

  • It utilizes asynchronous functions and thegoogle.maps.importLibrary method to load necessary libraries.

  • The sample includes TypeScript and JavaScript code snippets along with HTML and CSS for displaying the map.

This example uses a place ID to create a newPlace, callsPlace.fetchFieldsrequesting thedisplayName andformattedAddress fields, adds a marker to themap, and logs some data to the console.

Read thedocumentation.

TypeScript

constmapElement=document.querySelector('gmp-map')asgoogle.maps.MapElement;letinnerMap;letinfoWindow;asyncfunctioninitMap(){const{Map,InfoWindow}=(awaitgoogle.maps.importLibrary('maps'))asgoogle.maps.MapsLibrary;innerMap=mapElement.innerMap;infoWindow=newInfoWindow();getPlaceDetails();}asyncfunctiongetPlaceDetails(){const{Place}=(awaitgoogle.maps.importLibrary('places'))asgoogle.maps.PlacesLibrary;const{AdvancedMarkerElement}=(awaitgoogle.maps.importLibrary('marker'))asgoogle.maps.MarkerLibrary;// Use place ID to create a new Place instance.constplace=newPlace({id:'ChIJyYB_SZVU2YARR-I1Jjf08F0',// San Diego Zoo});// Call fetchFields, passing the desired data fields.awaitplace.fetchFields({fields:['displayName','formattedAddress','location','googleMapsURI',],});// Add an Advanced Markerconstmarker=newAdvancedMarkerElement({map:innerMap,position:place.location,title:place.displayName,});// Assemble the info window content.constcontent=document.createElement('div');constaddress=document.createElement('div');constplaceId=document.createElement('div');address.textContent=place.formattedAddress||'';placeId.textContent=place.id;content.append(placeId,address);if(place.googleMapsURI){constlink=document.createElement('a');link.href=place.googleMapsURI;link.target='_blank';link.textContent='View Details on Google Maps';content.appendChild(link);}// Display an info window.infoWindow.setHeaderContent(place.displayName);infoWindow.setContent(content);infoWindow.open({anchor:marker,});}initMap();
Note: Read theguide on using TypeScript and Google Maps.

JavaScript

constmapElement=document.querySelector('gmp-map');letinnerMap;letinfoWindow;asyncfunctioninitMap(){const{Map,InfoWindow}=(awaitgoogle.maps.importLibrary('maps'));innerMap=mapElement.innerMap;infoWindow=newInfoWindow();getPlaceDetails();}asyncfunctiongetPlaceDetails(){const{Place}=(awaitgoogle.maps.importLibrary('places'));const{AdvancedMarkerElement}=(awaitgoogle.maps.importLibrary('marker'));// Use place ID to create a new Place instance.constplace=newPlace({id:'ChIJyYB_SZVU2YARR-I1Jjf08F0',// San Diego Zoo});// Call fetchFields, passing the desired data fields.awaitplace.fetchFields({fields:['displayName','formattedAddress','location','googleMapsURI',],});// Add an Advanced Markerconstmarker=newAdvancedMarkerElement({map:innerMap,position:place.location,title:place.displayName,});// Assemble the info window content.constcontent=document.createElement('div');constaddress=document.createElement('div');constplaceId=document.createElement('div');address.textContent=place.formattedAddress||'';placeId.textContent=place.id;content.append(placeId,address);if(place.googleMapsURI){constlink=document.createElement('a');link.href=place.googleMapsURI;link.target='_blank';link.textContent='View Details on Google Maps';content.appendChild(link);}// Display an info window.infoWindow.setHeaderContent(place.displayName);infoWindow.setContent(content);infoWindow.open({anchor:marker,});}initMap();
Note: The JavaScript is compiled from the TypeScript snippet.

CSS

/* * Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div element * that contains the map. */#map{height:100%;}/* * Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. */html,body{height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}

HTML

<html>    <head>        <title>Place Class</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="32.7360353,-117.1509849" zoom="14" map-id="DEMO_MAP_ID"            ><!-- Map id is required for Advanced Markers. -->        </gmp-map>    </body></html>

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Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow theseinstructionsto install Node.js and NPM. The following commands clone, install dependencies and start the sample application.

gitclonehttps://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.gitcdsamples/place-classnpminpmstart

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