GoogleMap AngularJS Directive

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

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

1. Everything in tag and attributes.
   Thus, basic users don't even have to know what Javascript is.

2. 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

1. Include ng-map.min.js as well as google maps.
   <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js"></script>

2. name angular app as ngMap, or add it as a dependency

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

After map is initialized, you will have one event and map instances

Event:

• mapInitialized with parameter with map

  In case your map directive scope is different from your controller scope, use this event to get the map instance.

    app.controller('parentParentController', function($scope) {
      $scope.$on('mapInitialized', function(event, map) {
        map.setCenter( .... )
        ..
      });
    });
  

Instances:

• $scope.map
• $scope.map.markers
• $scope.map.shapes
• etc

Lazy Loading

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

<div map-lazy-load="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js">
  <map center="41,-87" zoom="3"></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="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3.20&client=XXXXenter-api-keyXXXX";). 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="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js"
      map-lazy-load-params="{{googleMapsUrl}}">
  <map center="41,-87" zoom="3"></map>
</div>

Directives

• bicycling-layer
• cloud-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
• weather-layer

Advanced Examples

• Marker Clusterer
• Starbucks World Wide
• Road Trip By StreetView
• Maps Can Talk
• Custom Marker

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 from a previous build ? does this work ?
• 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 testapp-server will start a web server for the testapp on http://localhost:8888

Release Notes

1.13.0

• New directive custom-marker

1.12.0

• Refactored documentation with angular-jsdoc

1.10.0

• Added an event objectChanged to broadcast change of objects in map. e.g., markers, shapes, etc

1.9.0

• Refactored directory structure

1.7.0

• added directions directive Example
• added places-auto-complete for input tag. Example

1.6.0

• added street-view-panorama directive with its examples; street view with marker and street view in its own container

1.5.0

• added geo-callback attribute for map, marker, shape, and info-window. Example

1.4.0

• support lazy loading of maps js with directive, map-lazy-load, which does not require to https://maps.google.com/maps/api/js Example

1.3.0

• added drawing-manager directive. Thanks to Fangming Du Example

1.2.0

• events with controller as syntax, thanks to Simon

1.1.0

• marker directive can have icon attribute as JSON
• map with init-event attribute for initialization by an event

1.0.0 (covers All official google maps v3 examples using directives).

license

MIT License