GoogleMap AngularJS Directive

Demo
Documentation
Road Trip By StreetView
Maps Can Talk | Custom Marker

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Background

There is already one for this. However, I found myself doing totally different approach than the existing one, such as;

Everything in tag and attributes.
Thus, basic users don't even have to know what Javascript is.
Expose all original Google Maps V3 api to the user.
No hiding, no wraping, or whatsoever. By doing so, programmers don't need to learn how to use this module. You only need to know Google Maps V3 API.

There is a blog that introduces this module. The title of it is 'Google Map As The Simplest Way'

To Get Started

For Bower users,

$ bower install ngmap

Include ng-map.min.js: <script src="/bower_components/ngmap/build/scripts/ng-map.min.js"></script>
Include Google maps:
<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js"></script>
Name your angular app ngMap, or add it as a dependency

var myApp = angular.module('myApp', ['ngMap']);

To get the map instance use the NgMap.getMap() function

app.controller('MyController', function(NgMap) {
  NgMap.getMap().then(function(map) {
    console.log(map.getCenter());
    console.log('markers', map.markers);
    console.log('shapes', map.shapes);
  });
});

For npm users,

$ npm install ngmap

For meteor users: https://atmospherejs.com/wormy/angularjs-google-maps

Lazy Loading of Google Maps Javascript

Simply wrap the map tag with map-lazy-load="https://maps.google.com/maps/api/js".

<div map-lazy-load="https://maps.google.com/maps/api/js">
  <ng-map center="41,-87" zoom="3"></ng-map>
</div>

If you need to pass in an API key to the javascript, you can set a scope variable in your controller (e.g. $scope.googleMapsUrl="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_KEY_HERE";). This can be set from a constant value in your app to standardise the API key to pass to google for multiple controllers.

<div map-lazy-load="https://maps.google.com/maps/api/js"
  map-lazy-load-params="{{googleMapsUrl}}">
  <ng-map center="41,-87" zoom="3"></ng-map>
</div>

FAQ

Grey area in Google maps

The usual reason why this is happening is that the size of the map is changed after the map has been initialized. If you for some reason change the size of the div, you need to trigger the "resize" event and possible reCenter the map.

 var center = map.getCenter();
 google.maps.event.trigger(map, "resize");
 map.setCenter(center);

Ref.

Check if a marker is within Map, Rectangle, or Circle

map.getBounds().contains(marker.getPosition()

Calculate distance between two position

You may checkout this, https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/distancematrix. As you see, DistanceMatrix does not require map nor directive.

Another way to do is to use directions directive. As you see it here, https://rawgit.com/allenhwkim/angularjs-google-maps/master/testapp/directions2.html, you have access to DirectionsRenderer by using map.directionsRenderers[id]

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference?hl=en#DirectionsRenderer

You use getDirections() or directions, then calculate the distance from there. e.g.,

Distance: {{map.directionsRenderers[0].directions.routes[0].legs[0].distance}}

Directives

bicycling-layer
custom-control
custom-marker (NEW)
directions (NEW)
drawing-manager (NEW)
dynamic-maps-engine-layer
fusion-tables-layer
heatmap-layer
info-window
kml-layer
map
map-data
map-lazy-load (NEW)
map-type
map_controller
maps-engine-layer
marker
overlay-map-type
places-auto-complete
shape
street-view-panorama (NEW)
traffic-layer
transit-layer

Advanced Examples

Contributors

Contributing

Clone the repository from github
Change to the folder dowloaded
npm install to install the build tools
gulp build to build the javascript & doc files in the /build folder & run the unit tests.
gulp clean to cleanup the repository by removing files and folders from previous build.
gulp test to run the Karma unit test suite.
gulp test:e2e to run the Protractor test suite. For the first test run, you may need to update the protractor webdriver manager. It will show the command on screen if this is required (node_modules/gulp-protractor/node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager update).
gulp test:server will start a web server for the testapp on http://localhost:8888

license

MIT License

cardozotm/angularjs-google-maps