Accessing Arguments in UI Events

This example creates a map that the user can click to create a marker at the clicked point.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

async function initMap() {
  // Request needed libraries.
  await google.maps.importLibrary("maps") as google.maps.MapsLibrary;
  await google.maps.importLibrary("marker") as google.maps.MarkerLibrary;

  const mapElement = document.querySelector('gmp-map') as google.maps.MapElement;
  const innerMap = mapElement.innerMap;

  innerMap.addListener("click", (e) => {
    placeMarkerAndPanTo(e.latLng, innerMap);
  });
}

function placeMarkerAndPanTo(latLng: google.maps.LatLng, map: google.maps.Map) {
  new google.maps.marker.AdvancedMarkerElement({
    position: latLng,
    map: map,
  });
  map.panTo(latLng);
}

initMap();
index.ts

JavaScript

async function initMap() {
    // Request needed libraries.
    await google.maps.importLibrary("maps");
    await google.maps.importLibrary("marker");
    const mapElement = document.querySelector('gmp-map');
    const innerMap = mapElement.innerMap;
    innerMap.addListener("click", (e) => {
        placeMarkerAndPanTo(e.latLng, innerMap);
    });
}
function placeMarkerAndPanTo(latLng, map) {
    new google.maps.marker.AdvancedMarkerElement({
        position: latLng,
        map: map,
    });
    map.panTo(latLng);
}
initMap();
index.js

CSS

/* 
 * Optional: Makes the sample page fill the window. 
 */
html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Accessing Arguments in UI Events</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
    <!-- 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: "weekly"});</script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <gmp-map center="-25.363882,131.044922" zoom="4" map-id="DEMO_MAP_ID"></gmp-map>
  </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/event-arguments
  npm i
  npm start