Animate the camera

The following example shows how to control animation that moves the camera to and then around a location in 3D Maps in Maps JavaScript.

Read the documentation.

JavaScript

async function init() {
    const { Map3DElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary('maps3d');

    const map = new Map3DElement({
        center: {
            lat: 37.79810773998413,
            lng: -122.41784275049939,
            altitude: 89.08476932205978,
        },
        range: 6062.016931506805,
        tilt: 81.17100663963272,
        heading: -56.047035719765596,
    });

    map.mode = 'SATELLITE';

    document.body.append(map);

    // Used for both the fly to function and the location to fly around.
    const flyToCamera = {
        center: {
            lat: 21.263523536467105,
            lng: -157.80663691939296,
            altitude: 80.28936069489404,
        },
        range: 1500.8202963253427,
        tilt: 76.9173260789542,
        heading: -44.59196007522445,
    };

    // Fly the camera from San Francisco to Hawaii, can be controlled by a button alternatively.
    map.flyCameraTo({
        // Where we are going to.
        endCamera: flyToCamera,
        // How long we want the flight to take.
        durationMillis: 30000,
    });
    // When the animation has completed, fly around the location.
    map.addEventListener(
        'gmp-animationend',
        () => {
            map.flyCameraAround({
                // Location to fly around.
                camera: flyToCamera,
                // Length of time to fly to the location.
                durationMillis: 50000,
                // Number of rotations to make in the specified time.
                repeatCount: 1,
            });
        },
        { once: true }
    ); // Stop animation after flying around.

    // At any time stop the animation.
    map.addEventListener('gmp-click', () => {
        map.stopCameraAnimation();
    });
}

void init();

CSS

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

HTML

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Map</title>

        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
        <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
        <script>
            // prettier-ignore
            (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: "GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY"
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="map"></div>
    </body>
</html>

Clone Sample

Git and Node.js are required to run this sample locally. Follow these instructions to install Node.js and NPM. You will also need a Google Maps API key.

The following commands clone the repository, install dependencies, and copy the environment file.

  git clone https://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.git
  cd js-api-samples
  npm i
  cp .env.template .env

Once you copy the environment file, make sure to open the .env file and replace <Insert your own development API key here> with your actual API key before starting the sample.

  cd samples/3d-camera-to-around
  npm start