Hiding Map Features With Styling

You can use map styling to hide features on the map. Select an option in this example to hide or show business points of interest (POIs) and public transit icons on the map.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

let map: google.maps.Map;

function initMap(): void {
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement, {
    center: { lat: -33.86, lng: 151.209 },
    zoom: 13,
    mapTypeControl: false,
  });

  // Add controls to the map, allowing users to hide/show features.
  const styleControl = document.getElementById(
    "style-selector-control"
  ) as HTMLElement;

  map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.TOP_LEFT].push(styleControl);

  // Apply new JSON when the user chooses to hide/show features.
  (document.getElementById("hide-poi") as HTMLElement).addEventListener(
    "click",
    () => {
      map.setOptions({ styles: styles["hide"] });
    }
  );
  (document.getElementById("show-poi") as HTMLElement).addEventListener(
    "click",
    () => {
      map.setOptions({ styles: styles["default"] });
    }
  );
}

const styles: Record<string, google.maps.MapTypeStyle[]> = {
  default: [],
  hide: [
    {
      featureType: "poi.business",
      stylers: [{ visibility: "off" }],
    },
    {
      featureType: "transit",
      elementType: "labels.icon",
      stylers: [{ visibility: "off" }],
    },
  ],
};


declare global {
  interface Window {
    initMap: () => void;
  }
}
window.initMap = initMap;
index.ts

JavaScript

let map;

function initMap() {
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    center: { lat: -33.86, lng: 151.209 },
    zoom: 13,
    mapTypeControl: false,
  });

  // Add controls to the map, allowing users to hide/show features.
  const styleControl = document.getElementById("style-selector-control");

  map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.TOP_LEFT].push(styleControl);
  // Apply new JSON when the user chooses to hide/show features.
  document.getElementById("hide-poi").addEventListener("click", () => {
    map.setOptions({ styles: styles["hide"] });
  });
  document.getElementById("show-poi").addEventListener("click", () => {
    map.setOptions({ styles: styles["default"] });
  });
}

const styles = {
  default: [],
  hide: [
    {
      featureType: "poi.business",
      stylers: [{ visibility: "off" }],
    },
    {
      featureType: "transit",
      elementType: "labels.icon",
      stylers: [{ visibility: "off" }],
    },
  ],
};

window.initMap = initMap;
index.js

CSS

/* 
 * Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div element
 * that contains the map. 
 */
#map {
  height: 100%;
}

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

.map-control {
  background-color: #fff;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  box-shadow: 0 2px 2px rgba(33, 33, 33, 0.4);
  font-family: "Roboto", "sans-serif";
  margin: 10px;
  padding-right: 5px;
  /* Hide the control initially, to prevent it from appearing
           before the map loads. */
  display: none;
}

/* Display the control once it is inside the map. */
#map .map-control {
  display: block;
}

.selector-control {
  font-size: 14px;
  line-height: 30px;
  vertical-align: baseline;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Hiding Map Features With Styling</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="style-selector-control" class="map-control">
      <input
        type="radio"
        name="show-hide"
        id="hide-poi"
        class="selector-control"
      />
      <label for="hide-poi">Hide</label>
      <input
        type="radio"
        name="show-hide"
        id="show-poi"
        class="selector-control"
        checked="checked"
      />
      <label for="show-poi">Show</label>
    </div>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <!-- 
      The `defer` attribute causes the script to execute after the full HTML
      document has been parsed. For non-blocking uses, avoiding race conditions,
      and consistent behavior across browsers, consider loading using Promises. See
      https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/load-maps-js-api
      for more information.
      -->
    <script
      src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg&callback=initMap&v=weekly"
      defer
    ></script>
  </body>
</html>
index.html

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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 -b sample-hiding-features https://github.com/googlemaps/js-samples.git
  cd js-samples
  npm i
  npm start

Other samples can be tried by switching to any branch beginning with sample-SAMPLE_NAME. 

  git checkout sample-SAMPLE_NAME
  npm i
  npm start