Questions tagged [mymaps]

Google My Maps is a feature of Google Maps (from April 2007) that enables users to quickly and easily create custom maps for personal use or sharing through search.

Google My Maps is a feature of Google Maps (from April 2007) that enables users to create custom maps for personal use or sharing through search. My Maps empowers users to create content-rich maps that are relevant to their interests, expertise, or personal needs. Users can add points, lines, and shapes on top of Google Maps, using a WYSIWYG editor. User can also have layers and customize the items in each layer with uniform styles and having labels for the name or description. There are many different objects user can have as his points, such as the town point, train point, bus point, hospital point etc. Also user can the colour of anything and change the thickness as well.

With My Maps users can:

  • Mark locations on a map from a library of icons
  • Draw lines and shapes to highlight paths and areas
  • Add text, photos, or YouTube/Google Videos to a map
  • Add HTML for further personalization
  • View their maps in Google Earth

Links

Wiki My Maps Help Center

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Google My Maps - API

Is there any way to add Layers, Points, Directions or any data to a map in the Google My Maps, using API? I have searched in Google but didn't find a solution to do this.
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How to change the road color in Google My Maps

Is there a way to change the road color in a map created with Google My Maps? I want to make a screenshot of my map, but the color of all roads should be black. I tried to change the CSS via browser plugin Custom Style Script for Firefox without…
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Add MyMaps map to an Android Fragment

I'm currently working on a project where I need to add a Google My Maps map to a fragment, but I've been searching for a while, and I haven't been able to find a way to introduce the URL. My guess is that it should be a method somewhere in the…
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How to change google mymaps iframe embed zoom?

I've got an embedded google mymaps. It seems the zoom parameter doesn't work at all. I cannot find any useful information on google documentation. Mymaps seem not to follow the standard iframe maps api.
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MyMaps. Failed to import file from Google Drive, check network connection and try again

Im trying to import a file to MyMaps via Google Drive. It has been working previously but now it does not. Tt gives the following error: Failed to import file from Google Drive, check network connection and try again I even tried to a use a very…
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How to using google my maps in flutter app

I'm building a flight route map that will be intriguing with the device's gps. I tried in one way to use the google my maps service I created objects there on a satellite map of route names and links. But I did not find a package that supports…
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Can we create layers in Google datastudio Bubble map to plot and compare data ; similar to Google Mymaps

I have a table showing order projection on pincode level How I'm creating Chart Create a Datastudio - Datasource and add the relevant gsheet containing data below: Edit pincode as Postal code Create a report > Create a Bubble Map and plot pincodes…
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How can I disable public access to the embed code of a map from Google My Maps?

I am in the process of creating and publishing a map in Google My Maps, to show locations of various groups of businesses. The published map includes an option under the Share link to grab the embed code so as to publish the map elsewhere. I view…
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Export locations marked in gogle mymaps with latitude and longitude in google mymaps

I have a set of addresses imported to google mymaps. I want now to extract these locations with the coordinates in google mymaps. I downloaded the KML file. But it doesn't show any coordinates Excel file with latitude and longitude
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Google My Maps pins showing on Android but not iOS

I have created several maps for my company using Google My Maps. Within the last few days, the people using IOS devices are able to see the list of all the created maps, in the My Places > Maps section, as well as the map information via the map…
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Checking if GPS location is inside an area of Google Maps/My Maps

I am searching for a possibility to check whether a GPS location is inside a certain custom created area preferably created in Google My Maps from Google Maps. I have created an area in Google My Maps: Getting the GPS coordinates isn't a big deal,…
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Current Location in Google My Map from URL

I want to be able to have phone users click a URL from a browser to open a Google My Map in Google Maps. Most importantly, I want the user to be able to see their current location on the My Map. I am able to do this if the link is pasted in an…
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Google MyMaps Geolocation // GPS

I created a Map in MyMaps an implemented it to an php document. It works good. But i would like so set the Geolocation when it starts. Is that possible? The following script Show me a Google Map with the Geolocation. How can I implement here My…
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my maps in a webview launches in googlemaps

So it's a simple app showing a webview with a mymap, and, oh my, Google have made it wonderful. They've extracted all the markers and info boxes and sent them off to the Google maps app where they're displayed as cards. But this creates…
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Send and display a map location query to a saved google map

I have a basic map query that I am sending to google maps from another cloud based platform (netsuite) that looks like this: http://maps.google.com/maps?q={custentity_street} where {custentity_street} is equal to a street address. This does a great…
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