Create markers

The following example creates a marker over the Google office in Mountain View.

Read the documentation.

JavaScriptCSSHTML
async function init() {
    // Make sure the Marker3DElement is included.
    const { Map3DElement, Marker3DElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps3d");
    const map = new Map3DElement({
        center: { lat: 37.4239163, lng: -122.0947209, altitude: 0 },
        tilt: 67.5,
        range: 1000,
        mode: 'SATELLITE'
    });
    const marker = new Marker3DElement({
        position: { lat: 37.4239163, lng: -122.0947209, altitude: 50 }, // (Required) Marker must have a lat / lng, but do not need an altitude.
        altitudeMode: "ABSOLUTE", // (Optional) Treated as CLAMP_TO_GROUND if omitted.
        extruded: true, // (Optional) Draws line from ground to the bottom of the marker.
        label: "Basic Marker" // (Optional) Add a label to the marker.
    });
    map.append(marker); // The marker needs to be appended to the map.
    document.body.append(map);
}
init();
index.js
 
/* * Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div element
 * that contains the map. 
 */
html,
body {
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}
style.css
 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Map</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <!-- 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: "alpha",});</script>
  </body>
</html>
index.html

Try Sample

Clone Sample

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

  git clone https://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.git
  cd samples/3d-simple-marker
  npm i
  npm start