Style data features

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Apply style to data features by setting the style property on a dataset feature layer to a google.maps.FeatureStyleFunction, which can contain styling logic, or a google.maps.FeatureStyleOptions, to uniformly style all features for a layer. You can apply styles to data features for fill (color, opacity), stroke (color, opacity, stroke weight), and diameter (points). This page shows how to programmatically access a dataset and style its features, and walks through styling examples for data features based on point, polygon, and polyline geometries.

Data-driven styling for datasets renders data features based on the provided latitude and longitude coordinates from the geospatial data file used to create the dataset.

Data feature attributes

All data in a dataset can be accessed in the feature style function. To get data feature attributes, first get the dataset feature, which contains all data within the dataset, then get the specific data attribute you want, as shown here:

TypeScript

// Get the dataset feature, so we can work with all of its attributes.
const datasetFeature = params.feature;
// Get all of the needed dataset attributes.
const furColors = datasetFeature.datasetAttributes['CombinationofPrimaryandHighlightColor'];
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JavaScript

// Get the dataset feature, so we can work with all of its attributes.
const datasetFeature = params.feature;
// Get all of the needed dataset attributes.
const furColors =
  datasetFeature.datasetAttributes["CombinationofPrimaryandHighlightColor"];

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Feature style options

Feature style options are where you define styling for a data feature layer, for example styling the fill and stroke for polygons, or the color and diameter of points. The following example shows feature style options, which could be directly applied using the style property for a feature:

TypeScript

// Apply style to all features.
datasetLayer.style = { strokeColor: 'green', strokeWeight: 4, };
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JavaScript

// Apply style to all features.
datasetLayer.style = { strokeColor: "green", strokeWeight: 4 };

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The feature style function

Use a feature style function to define logic for styling dataset features. To style a feature, set the style property to a google.maps.FeatureStyleFunction. The style function is where where you define logic to style individual features on a feature layer. When featureLayer.style is set, the style function is run over every feature in the affected feature layer. The function is applied at the time you set the style property. To update it, you must set the style property again. The following example shows a simple feature style function:

TypeScript

const styleDefault = {
  strokeColor: 'green',
  strokeWeight: 2.0,
  strokeOpacity: 1.0,
  fillColor: 'green',
  fillOpacity: 0.3,
};

const styleClicked = {
  ...styleDefault,
  strokeColor: 'blue',
  fillColor: 'blue',
  fillOpacity: 0.5,
};

const styleMouseMove = {
   ...styleDefault,
  strokeWeight: 4.0
};

function applyStyle(/* FeatureStyleFunctionOptions */ params) {
  const datasetFeature = params.feature;
  // Note, 'globalid' is an attribute in this dataset.
  //@ts-ignore
  if (lastClickedFeatureIds.includes(datasetFeature.datasetAttributes['globalid'])) {
    return styleClicked;
  }
  //@ts-ignore
  if (lastInteractedFeatureIds.includes(datasetFeature.datasetAttributes['globalid'])) {
    return styleMouseMove;
  }
  return styleDefault;
}
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JavaScript

const styleDefault = {
  strokeColor: "green",
  strokeWeight: 2.0,
  strokeOpacity: 1.0,
  fillColor: "green",
  fillOpacity: 0.3,
};
const styleClicked = {
  ...styleDefault,
  strokeColor: "blue",
  fillColor: "blue",
  fillOpacity: 0.5,
};
const styleMouseMove = {
  ...styleDefault,
  strokeWeight: 4.0,
};

function applyStyle(/* FeatureStyleFunctionOptions */ params) {
  const datasetFeature = params.feature;

  // Note, 'globalid' is an attribute in this dataset.
  //@ts-ignore
  if (
    lastClickedFeatureIds.includes(datasetFeature.datasetAttributes["globalid"])
  ) {
    return styleClicked;
  }

  //@ts-ignore
  if (
    lastInteractedFeatureIds.includes(
      datasetFeature.datasetAttributes["globalid"],
    )
  ) {
    return styleMouseMove;
  }
  return styleDefault;
}

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The style function should always return consistent results when it is applied over features. For example, if you wanted to randomly color a set of features, the random part should not take place in the feature style function, as that would cause unintended results. Because this function runs over every feature in a layer, optimization is important. To avoid impacting rendering times, set style to null when a layer is no longer in use.

Point data styling example

This example shows an approach to styling point geometry based data features.

About the dataset

The dataset used in this example is the result of a 2018 survey of squirrels in Central Park, New York City. In the following excerpt from the CSV data file, we see that columns x and y are used for geography; a LatLng column is included, but it's not used in this example since geographic position must be represented by two columns. The squirrel census dataset contains a nice variety of different data points relating to the observed fur color and behavior of squirrels (be sure to scroll horizontally to see it all).

X Y UniqueSquirrelID Hectare Shift Date Hectare SquirrelNumber Age PrimaryFurColor HighlightFurColor CombinationofPrimaryandHighlightColor Colornotes Location AboveGroundSighter Measurement SpecificLocation Running Chasing Climbing Eating Foraging Other Activities Kuks Quaas Moans Tailflags Tailtwitches Approaches Indifferent Runsfrom OtherInteractions LatLng
-73.9561344937861 40.7940823884086 37F-PM-1014-03 37F PM 10142018 3 + false false false false false false false false false false false false false POINT (-73.9561344937861 40.7940823884086)
-73.9688574691102 40.7837825208444 21B-AM-1019-04 21B AM 10192018 4 + false false false false false false false false false false false false false POINT (-73.9688574691102 40.7837825208444)
-73.9742811484852 40.775533619083 11B-PM-1014-08 11B PM 10142018 8 Gray Gray+ Above Ground 10 false true false false false false false false false false false false false POINT (-73.97428114848522 40.775533619083)
-73.9596413903948 40.7903128889029 32E-PM-1017-14 32E PM 10172018 14 Adult Gray Gray+ Nothing selected as Primary. Gray selected as Highlights. Made executive adjustments. false false false true true false false false false false false false true POINT (-73.9596413903948 40.7903128889029)
-73.9702676472613 40.7762126854894 13E-AM-1017-05 13E AM 10172018 5 Adult Gray Cinnamon Gray+Cinnamon Above Ground on tree stump false false false false true false false false false false false false false POINT (-73.9702676472613 40.7762126854894)
-73.9683613516225 40.7725908847499 11H-AM-1010-03 11H AM 10102018 3 Adult Cinnamon White Cinnamon+White false false false false true false false false false true false true false POINT (-73.9683613516225 40.7725908847499)
-73.9541201789795 40.7931811701082 36H-AM-1010-02 36H AM 10102018 2 Adult Gray Gray+ just outside hectare Ground Plane FALSE false false false false true false false false false false false false false POINT (-73.9541201789795 40.7931811701082)

Style point data features

The code in this example takes the simple approach of styling the fill color and stroke color for each point based on the CombinationofPrimaryandHighlightColor attribute, which combines the primary and secondary fur colors for each squirrel.

TypeScript

function setStyle(/* FeatureStyleFunctionOptions */ params) {
    // Get the dataset feature, so we can work with all of its attributes.
    const datasetFeature = params.feature;
    // Get all of the needed dataset attributes.
    const furColors = datasetFeature.datasetAttributes['CombinationofPrimaryandHighlightColor'];

    // Apply styles. Fill is primary fur color, stroke is secondary fur color.
    switch (furColors) {
        case 'Black+':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'black', pointRadius: 8 };
            break;
        case 'Cinnamon+':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: '#8b0000', pointRadius: 8 };
            break;
        case 'Cinnamon+Gray':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: '#8b0000', strokeColor: 'gray', pointRadius: 6 };
            break;
        case 'Cinnamon+White':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: '#8b0000', strokeColor: 'white', pointRadius: 6 };
            break;
        case 'Gray+':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'gray', pointRadius: 8 };
            break;
        case 'Gray+Cinnamon':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'gray', strokeColor: '#8b0000', pointRadius: 6 };
            break;
        case 'Gray+Cinnamon, White':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'silver', strokeColor: '#8b0000', pointRadius: 6 };
            break;
        case 'Gray+White':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'gray', strokeColor: 'white', pointRadius: 6 };
            break;
        default: // Color not defined.
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'yellow', pointRadius: 8 };
            break; 
    }
}
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JavaScript

function setStyle(/* FeatureStyleFunctionOptions */ params) {
  // Get the dataset feature, so we can work with all of its attributes.
  const datasetFeature = params.feature;
  // Get all of the needed dataset attributes.
  const furColors =
    datasetFeature.datasetAttributes["CombinationofPrimaryandHighlightColor"];

  // Apply styles. Fill is primary fur color, stroke is secondary fur color.
  switch (furColors) {
    case "Black+":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: "black", pointRadius: 8 };
      break;
    case "Cinnamon+":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: "#8b0000", pointRadius: 8 };
      break;
    case "Cinnamon+Gray":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        fillColor: "#8b0000",
        strokeColor: "gray",
        pointRadius: 6,
      };
      break;
    case "Cinnamon+White":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        fillColor: "#8b0000",
        strokeColor: "white",
        pointRadius: 6,
      };
      break;
    case "Gray+":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: "gray", pointRadius: 8 };
      break;
    case "Gray+Cinnamon":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        fillColor: "gray",
        strokeColor: "#8b0000",
        pointRadius: 6,
      };
      break;
    case "Gray+Cinnamon, White":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        fillColor: "silver",
        strokeColor: "#8b0000",
        pointRadius: 6,
      };
      break;
    case "Gray+White":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        fillColor: "gray",
        strokeColor: "white",
        pointRadius: 6,
      };
      break;
    default: // Color not defined.
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: "yellow", pointRadius: 8 };
      break;
  }
}

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Complete example code

See the complete example source code

TypeScript

let map;
function setStyle(/* FeatureStyleFunctionOptions */ params) {
    // Get the dataset feature, so we can work with all of its attributes.
    const datasetFeature = params.feature;
    // Get all of the needed dataset attributes.
    const furColors = datasetFeature.datasetAttributes['CombinationofPrimaryandHighlightColor'];

    // Apply styles. Fill is primary fur color, stroke is secondary fur color.
    switch (furColors) {
        case 'Black+':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'black', pointRadius: 8 };
            break;
        case 'Cinnamon+':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: '#8b0000', pointRadius: 8 };
            break;
        case 'Cinnamon+Gray':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: '#8b0000', strokeColor: 'gray', pointRadius: 6 };
            break;
        case 'Cinnamon+White':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: '#8b0000', strokeColor: 'white', pointRadius: 6 };
            break;
        case 'Gray+':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'gray', pointRadius: 8 };
            break;
        case 'Gray+Cinnamon':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'gray', strokeColor: '#8b0000', pointRadius: 6 };
            break;
        case 'Gray+Cinnamon, White':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'silver', strokeColor: '#8b0000', pointRadius: 6 };
            break;
        case 'Gray+White':
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'gray', strokeColor: 'white', pointRadius: 6 };
            break;
        default: // Color not defined.
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: 'yellow', pointRadius: 8 };
            break; 
    }
}

async function initMap() {
    // Request needed libraries.
    const { Map } = await google.maps.importLibrary('maps') as google.maps.MapsLibrary;

    const position = {lat: 40.780101, lng: -73.967780};
    const map = new Map(document.getElementById('map') as HTMLElement, {
        zoom: 17,
        center: position,
        mapId: 'b98e588c46685dd7',
        mapTypeControl: false,
        streetViewControl: false,
        fullscreenControl: false,
    });

    // Add the data legend.
    makeLegend(map);

    // Dataset ID for squirrel dataset.
    const datasetId = '02fa1552-37dd-4a95-844f-f99e1c22541f';
    //@ts-ignore
    const datasetLayer = map.getDatasetFeatureLayer(datasetId);
    //@ts-ignore
    datasetLayer.style = setStyle;

    // Create an attribution DIV and add the attribution to the map.
    const attributionDiv = document.createElement('div');
    const attributionControl = createAttribution(map);
    attributionDiv.appendChild(attributionControl);
    map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.BOTTOM_LEFT].push(attributionDiv);
}

// Create a custom control to hold attribution text.
function createAttribution(map) {
    const attributionLabel = document.createElement('div');
    // Define CSS styles.
    attributionLabel.style.backgroundColor = '#fff';
    attributionLabel.style.opacity = '0.7';
    attributionLabel.style.fontFamily = 'Roboto,Arial,sans-serif';
    attributionLabel.style.fontSize = '10px';
    attributionLabel.style.padding = '2px';
    attributionLabel.style.margin = '2px';
    attributionLabel.textContent = 'Data source: NYC Open Data';
    return attributionLabel;
}

function makeLegend(map) {
    let colors = {
        'black': ['black'],
        'cinnamon': ['#8b0000'],
        'cinnamon + gray': ['#8b0000','gray'],
        'cinnamon + white': ['#8b0000', 'white'],
        'gray': ['gray'],
        'gray + cinnamon': ['gray', '#8b0000'],
        'gray + cinnamon + white': ['silver', '#8b0000'],
        'gray + white': ['gray', 'white'],
        'no color data': ['yellow'],
    };
    let legend = document.createElement('div');
    legend.id = 'legend';
    let title = document.createElement('div');
    title.innerText = 'Fur Colors';
    title.classList.add('title');
    legend.appendChild(title);
    let k;
    for (k in colors) {
        let wrapper = document.createElement('div');
        wrapper.id = 'container';
        let box = document.createElement('div');
        box.style.backgroundColor = colors[k][0];
        if (colors[k][1]) {
            box.style.borderColor = colors[k][1];
        } else {
            box.style.borderColor = colors[k][0];
        }
        box.classList.add('box');
        let txt = document.createElement('div');
        txt.classList.add('legend');
        txt.innerText = k;
        wrapper.appendChild(box);
        wrapper.appendChild(txt);
        legend.appendChild(wrapper);
    }
    map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.LEFT_TOP].push(legend);
}

initMap();
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JavaScript

let map;

function setStyle(/* FeatureStyleFunctionOptions */ params) {
  // Get the dataset feature, so we can work with all of its attributes.
  const datasetFeature = params.feature;
  // Get all of the needed dataset attributes.
  const furColors =
    datasetFeature.datasetAttributes["CombinationofPrimaryandHighlightColor"];

  // Apply styles. Fill is primary fur color, stroke is secondary fur color.
  switch (furColors) {
    case "Black+":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: "black", pointRadius: 8 };
      break;
    case "Cinnamon+":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: "#8b0000", pointRadius: 8 };
      break;
    case "Cinnamon+Gray":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        fillColor: "#8b0000",
        strokeColor: "gray",
        pointRadius: 6,
      };
      break;
    case "Cinnamon+White":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        fillColor: "#8b0000",
        strokeColor: "white",
        pointRadius: 6,
      };
      break;
    case "Gray+":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: "gray", pointRadius: 8 };
      break;
    case "Gray+Cinnamon":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        fillColor: "gray",
        strokeColor: "#8b0000",
        pointRadius: 6,
      };
      break;
    case "Gray+Cinnamon, White":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        fillColor: "silver",
        strokeColor: "#8b0000",
        pointRadius: 6,
      };
      break;
    case "Gray+White":
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        fillColor: "gray",
        strokeColor: "white",
        pointRadius: 6,
      };
      break;
    default: // Color not defined.
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ { fillColor: "yellow", pointRadius: 8 };
      break;
  }
}

async function initMap() {
  // Request needed libraries.
  const { Map } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps");
  const position = { lat: 40.780101, lng: -73.96778 };
  const map = new Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    zoom: 17,
    center: position,
    mapId: "b98e588c46685dd7",
    mapTypeControl: false,
    streetViewControl: false,
    fullscreenControl: false,
  });

  // Add the data legend.
  makeLegend(map);

  // Dataset ID for squirrel dataset.
  const datasetId = "02fa1552-37dd-4a95-844f-f99e1c22541f";
  //@ts-ignore
  const datasetLayer = map.getDatasetFeatureLayer(datasetId);

  //@ts-ignore
  datasetLayer.style = setStyle;

  // Create an attribution DIV and add the attribution to the map.
  const attributionDiv = document.createElement("div");
  const attributionControl = createAttribution(map);

  attributionDiv.appendChild(attributionControl);
  map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.BOTTOM_LEFT].push(attributionDiv);
}

// Create a custom control to hold attribution text.
function createAttribution(map) {
  const attributionLabel = document.createElement("div");

  // Define CSS styles.
  attributionLabel.style.backgroundColor = "#fff";
  attributionLabel.style.opacity = "0.7";
  attributionLabel.style.fontFamily = "Roboto,Arial,sans-serif";
  attributionLabel.style.fontSize = "10px";
  attributionLabel.style.padding = "2px";
  attributionLabel.style.margin = "2px";
  attributionLabel.textContent = "Data source: NYC Open Data";
  return attributionLabel;
}

function makeLegend(map) {
  let colors = {
    "black": ["black"],
    "cinnamon": ["#8b0000"],
    "cinnamon + gray": ["#8b0000", "gray"],
    "cinnamon + white": ["#8b0000", "white"],
    "gray": ["gray"],
    "gray + cinnamon": ["gray", "#8b0000"],
    "gray + cinnamon + white": ["silver", "#8b0000"],
    "gray + white": ["gray", "white"],
    "no color data": ["yellow"],
  };
  let legend = document.createElement("div");

  legend.id = "legend";

  let title = document.createElement("div");

  title.innerText = "Fur Colors";
  title.classList.add("title");
  legend.appendChild(title);

  let k;

  for (k in colors) {
    let wrapper = document.createElement("div");

    wrapper.id = "container";

    let box = document.createElement("div");

    box.style.backgroundColor = colors[k][0];
    if (colors[k][1]) {
      box.style.borderColor = colors[k][1];
    } else {
      box.style.borderColor = colors[k][0];
    }

    box.classList.add("box");

    let txt = document.createElement("div");

    txt.classList.add("legend");
    txt.innerText = k;
    wrapper.appendChild(box);
    wrapper.appendChild(txt);
    legend.appendChild(wrapper);
  }

  map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.LEFT_TOP].push(legend);
}

initMap();
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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;
}

#legend,
#dataset,
#counter {
  background-color: #e5e5e5;
  width: 15em;
  margin-top: 2em;
  margin-left: 1em;
  border-radius: 8px;
  font-family: Roboto;
  overflow: hidden;
}

#dataset select {
  border-radius: 0;
  padding: 0.1em;
  border: 1px solid black;
  width: auto;
  margin: 0.5em 1em;
}

.title {
  padding: 0.5em 1em;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  margin-bottom: 0.5em;
  background-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);
  color: white;
  width: 100%;
}

.button {
  font-size: 1.2em;
  margin: 1em;
  background-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);
  color: white;
  padding: 0.5em;
  border-radius: 8px;
}

#legend #container {
  margin: 0.5em 1em;
  display: flex;
}

#legend div .box {
  display: flex;
  width: 2em;
  height: 2em;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 3px solid;
}

#legend div .legend {
  display: flex;
  padding: 0.5em;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Style a point data feature</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." 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: "AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg", v: "beta"});</script>
  </body>
</html>
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Try Sample

Polygon data styling example

This example shows an approach to styling polygon geometry based data features.

About the dataset

The dataset used in this example depicts parks in New York City. The following excerpt from the dataset GeoJSON file shows a representative feature entry.

{
  "type": "Feature",
  "properties": {
    "jurisdiction": "DPR",
    "mapped": "False",
    "zipcode": "11356",
    "acres": "0.05",
    "location": "College Pl., College Pt. Blvd., bet. 11 Ave. and 12 Ave.",
    "nys_assembly": "27",
    "councildistrict": "19",
    "url": "http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/Q042/",
    "typecategory": "Triangle/Plaza",
    "us_congress": "14",
    "eapply": "Poppenhusen Park",
    "parentid": "Q-07",
    "gispropnum": "Q042",
    "retired": "false",
    "communityboard": "407",
    "objectid": "6248",
    "globalid": "F4810079-CBB9-4BE7-BBFA-B3C0C35D5DE5",
    "name311": "Poppenhusen Park",
    "department": "Q-07",
    "pip_ratable": "true",
    "subcategory": "Sitting Area/Triangle/Mall",
    "precinct": "109",
    "permit": "true",
    "acquisitiondate": null,
    "omppropid": "Q042",
    "gisobjid": "100000301",
    "signname": "Poppenhusen Park",
    "address": null,
    "permitparent": "Q-07",
    "class": "PARK",
    "nys_senate": "11",
    "permitdistrict": "Q-07",
    "borough": "Q",
    "waterfront": "false"
  },
  "geometry": {
    "type": "MultiPolygon",
    "coordinates": [
      [
        [
          [
            -73.84575702371716,
            40.78796240884273
          ],
          [
            -73.84593393292693,
            40.78796857347548
          ],
          [
            -73.84577256469657,
            40.787651355629556
          ],
          [
            -73.84575702371716,
            40.78796240884273
          ]
        ]
      ]
    ]
  }
},

Style polygon data features

The code in this example applies special coloring to data features associated with a typecategory of "Undeveloped" or "Parkway", and colors all other features green.

TypeScript

function setStyle(/* FeatureStyleFunctionOptions */ params) {
    const datasetFeature = params.feature;
    // 'typecategory' is an attribute in this Dataset.
    const typeCategory = datasetFeature.datasetAttributes['typecategory'];

    switch (typeCategory) {
        case 'Undeveloped': // Color undeveloped areas blue.
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
                strokeColor: 'blue',
                strokeWeight: 2,
                strokeOpacity: 1,
                fillColor: 'blue',
                fillOpacity: 0.3,
            };
            break;
        case 'Parkway': // Color historical house sites red.
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
                strokeColor: 'red',
                strokeWeight: 2,
                strokeOpacity: 1,
                fillColor: 'red',
                fillOpacity: 0.5,
            };
            break;
        default: // Color other type categories green.
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
                strokeColor: 'green',
                strokeWeight: 2,
                strokeOpacity: 1,
                fillColor: 'green',
                fillOpacity: 0.3,
            };
            break;
    }
}
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JavaScript

function setStyle(/* FeatureStyleFunctionOptions */ params) {
  const datasetFeature = params.feature;
  // 'typecategory' is an attribute in this Dataset.
  const typeCategory = datasetFeature.datasetAttributes["typecategory"];

  switch (typeCategory) {
    case "Undeveloped": // Color undeveloped areas blue.
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        strokeColor: "blue",
        strokeWeight: 2,
        strokeOpacity: 1,
        fillColor: "blue",
        fillOpacity: 0.3,
      };
      break;
    case "Parkway": // Color historical house sites red.
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        strokeColor: "red",
        strokeWeight: 2,
        strokeOpacity: 1,
        fillColor: "red",
        fillOpacity: 0.5,
      };
      break;
    default: // Color other type categories green.
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        strokeColor: "green",
        strokeWeight: 2,
        strokeOpacity: 1,
        fillColor: "green",
        fillOpacity: 0.3,
      };
      break;
  }
}

index.js

Complete example code

See the complete example source code

TypeScript

let map;
function setStyle(/* FeatureStyleFunctionOptions */ params) {
    const datasetFeature = params.feature;
    // 'typecategory' is an attribute in this Dataset.
    const typeCategory = datasetFeature.datasetAttributes['typecategory'];

    switch (typeCategory) {
        case 'Undeveloped': // Color undeveloped areas blue.
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
                strokeColor: 'blue',
                strokeWeight: 2,
                strokeOpacity: 1,
                fillColor: 'blue',
                fillOpacity: 0.3,
            };
            break;
        case 'Parkway': // Color historical house sites red.
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
                strokeColor: 'red',
                strokeWeight: 2,
                strokeOpacity: 1,
                fillColor: 'red',
                fillOpacity: 0.5,
            };
            break;
        default: // Color other type categories green.
            return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
                strokeColor: 'green',
                strokeWeight: 2,
                strokeOpacity: 1,
                fillColor: 'green',
                fillOpacity: 0.3,
            };
            break;
    }
}

async function initMap() {
    // Request needed libraries.
    const { Map } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps") as google.maps.MapsLibrary;

    const position = {lat: 40.580732, lng: -74.152826};
    const map = new Map(document.getElementById('map') as HTMLElement, {
        zoom: 14,
        center: position,
        mapId: 'b98e588c46685dd7',
        mapTypeControl: false,
    });

    // Dataset ID for NYC park data.
    const datasetId = '6fe13aa9-b900-45e7-b636-3236672c3f4f';
    //@ts-ignore
    const datasetLayer = map.getDatasetFeatureLayer(datasetId);
    datasetLayer.style = setStyle;

    // Create an attribution DIV and add the attribution to the map.
    const attributionDiv = document.createElement('div');
    const attributionControl = createAttribution(map);
    attributionDiv.appendChild(attributionControl);
    map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.LEFT_BOTTOM].push(attributionDiv);
}

function createAttribution(map) {
    const attributionLabel = document.createElement('div');
    // Define CSS styles.
    attributionLabel.style.backgroundColor = '#fff';
    attributionLabel.style.opacity = '0.7';
    attributionLabel.style.fontFamily = 'Roboto,Arial,sans-serif';
    attributionLabel.style.fontSize = '10px';
    attributionLabel.style.padding = '2px';
    attributionLabel.style.margin = '2px';
    attributionLabel.textContent = 'Data source: NYC Open Data';
    return attributionLabel;
}

initMap();
index.ts

JavaScript

let map;

function setStyle(/* FeatureStyleFunctionOptions */ params) {
  const datasetFeature = params.feature;
  // 'typecategory' is an attribute in this Dataset.
  const typeCategory = datasetFeature.datasetAttributes["typecategory"];

  switch (typeCategory) {
    case "Undeveloped": // Color undeveloped areas blue.
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        strokeColor: "blue",
        strokeWeight: 2,
        strokeOpacity: 1,
        fillColor: "blue",
        fillOpacity: 0.3,
      };
      break;
    case "Parkway": // Color historical house sites red.
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        strokeColor: "red",
        strokeWeight: 2,
        strokeOpacity: 1,
        fillColor: "red",
        fillOpacity: 0.5,
      };
      break;
    default: // Color other type categories green.
      return /* FeatureStyleOptions */ {
        strokeColor: "green",
        strokeWeight: 2,
        strokeOpacity: 1,
        fillColor: "green",
        fillOpacity: 0.3,
      };
      break;
  }
}

async function initMap() {
  // Request needed libraries.
  const { Map } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps");
  const position = { lat: 40.580732, lng: -74.152826 };
  const map = new Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    zoom: 14,
    center: position,
    mapId: "b98e588c46685dd7",
    mapTypeControl: false,
  });
  // Dataset ID for NYC park data.
  const datasetId = "6fe13aa9-b900-45e7-b636-3236672c3f4f";
  //@ts-ignore
  const datasetLayer = map.getDatasetFeatureLayer(datasetId);

  datasetLayer.style = setStyle;

  // Create an attribution DIV and add the attribution to the map.
  const attributionDiv = document.createElement("div");
  const attributionControl = createAttribution(map);

  attributionDiv.appendChild(attributionControl);
  map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.LEFT_BOTTOM].push(attributionDiv);
}

function createAttribution(map) {
  const attributionLabel = document.createElement("div");

  // Define CSS styles.
  attributionLabel.style.backgroundColor = "#fff";
  attributionLabel.style.opacity = "0.7";
  attributionLabel.style.fontFamily = "Roboto,Arial,sans-serif";
  attributionLabel.style.fontSize = "10px";
  attributionLabel.style.padding = "2px";
  attributionLabel.style.margin = "2px";
  attributionLabel.textContent = "Data source: NYC Open Data";
  return attributionLabel;
}

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;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Style a polygon data feature with more detail</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." 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: "AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg", v: "beta"});</script>
  </body>
</html>
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Polyline data styling example

This example shows an approach to styling polyline geometry based data features.

About the dataset

The dataset used in this example shows bridges in the Seattle area. The following excerpt from the dataset GeoJSON file shows a representative feature entry.

{
  "type": "Feature",
  "properties": {
      "OBJECTID": 1,
      "COMPTYPE": 66,
      "COMPKEY": 515774,
      "HANSEGKEY": 489781,
      "UNITID": "BRG-935",
      "UNITTYPE": " ",
      "BRGUNITID": "BRG-935",
      "UNITDESC_BRG": "YALE AVE BR REV LANE OC                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        ",
      "UNITDESC_SEG": "HOWELL ST ON RP BETWEEN HOWELL ST AND I5 SB                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ",
      "INSTDATE": null,
      "EXPDATE": null,
      "STATUS": " ",
      "STATUSDT": null,
      "CONDITION": " ",
      "CONDDT": null,
      "OWN": " ",
      "LSTVERIFY": null,
      "MAINTBY": " ",
      "ADDBY": "GARCIAA",
      "ADDDTTM": "2010-01-21T00:00:00Z",
      "MODBY": null,
      "MODDTTM": null,
      "BR_NBR": 935,
      "BR_CODE": " 935",
      "BR_TYPE": "ST",
      "BR_NAME": "YALE AVE BR REV LANE OC",
      "BR_FACILITIES": "YALE AVE-SR 5 ON RAMP",
      "BR_FEATURES": "SR 5 REV LANE",
      "BR_RATING": 0,
      "BR_INSET": 1,
      "BR_GEO": "DT",
      "BR_OWNER": "DOT",
      "BR_OWNER_NAME": "State of Washington",
      "GEOBASID": 0,
      "XGEOBASID": 0,
      "GISSEGKEY": 489781,
      "EARTHQUAKE_RESPONSE_TEAM": " ",
      "SHAPE_Length": 220.11891836147655
  },
  "geometry": {
      "type": "LineString",
      "coordinates": [
          [
              -122.329201929090928,
              47.616910448708538
          ],
          [
              -122.329206483407461,
              47.616976719821004
          ],
          [
              -122.32921802149356,
              47.617042137515213
          ],
          [
              -122.329236413912909,
              47.617105967923777
          ],
          [
              -122.329261454336034,
              47.617167494985758
          ],
          [
              -122.329292861855023,
              47.617226028479571
          ],
          [
              -122.329330284134699,
              47.617280911766009
          ],
          [
              -122.329373301365223,
              47.617331529154569
          ],
          [
              -122.329421430971635,
              47.617377312810319
          ],
          [
              -122.329474133027375,
              47.617417749124023
          ],
          [
              -122.32953081631139,
              47.617452384473893
          ]
      ]
  }
},

Style polyline data features

The following snippet applies the same style to directly to all data features. Since no logic is required, a feature style function is not used in this case.

TypeScript

// Apply style to all features.
datasetLayer.style = { strokeColor: 'green', strokeWeight: 4, };
index.ts

JavaScript

// Apply style to all features.
datasetLayer.style = { strokeColor: "green", strokeWeight: 4 };

index.js

See the complete example source code

TypeScript

let map;
async function initMap() {
    // Request needed libraries.
    const { Map } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps") as google.maps.MapsLibrary;

    const position = {lat: 47.59, lng: -122.31};
    const map = new Map(document.getElementById('map') as HTMLElement, {
        zoom: 14,
        center: position,
        mapId: 'b98e588c46685dd7',
        mapTypeControl: false,
    });

    // Dataset ID for Seattle Bridges
    const datasetId = '3d0bd5fb-3f42-47fe-b50f-81c0932cd533';
    //@ts-ignore
    const datasetLayer = map.getDatasetFeatureLayer(datasetId);
    // Apply style to all features.
    datasetLayer.style = { strokeColor: 'green', strokeWeight: 4, };
    // Create an attribution DIV and add the attribution to the map.
    const attributionDiv = document.createElement('div');
    const attributionControl = createAttribution(map);
    attributionDiv.appendChild(attributionControl);
    map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.LEFT_BOTTOM].push(attributionDiv);
}

// Create a custom control to hold attribution text.
function createAttribution(map) {
    const attributionLabel = document.createElement('div');
    // Define CSS styles.
    attributionLabel.style.backgroundColor = '#fff';
    attributionLabel.style.opacity = '0.7';
    attributionLabel.style.fontFamily = 'Roboto,Arial,sans-serif';
    attributionLabel.style.fontSize = '10px';
    attributionLabel.style.padding = '2px';
    attributionLabel.style.margin = '2px';
    attributionLabel.textContent = 'Data source: Seattle GeoData';
    return attributionLabel;
}

initMap();
index.ts

JavaScript

let map;

async function initMap() {
  // Request needed libraries.
  const { Map } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps");
  const position = { lat: 47.59, lng: -122.31 };
  const map = new Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    zoom: 14,
    center: position,
    mapId: "b98e588c46685dd7",
    mapTypeControl: false,
  });
  // Dataset ID for Seattle Bridges
  const datasetId = "3d0bd5fb-3f42-47fe-b50f-81c0932cd533";
  //@ts-ignore
  const datasetLayer = map.getDatasetFeatureLayer(datasetId);

  // Apply style to all features.
  datasetLayer.style = { strokeColor: "green", strokeWeight: 4 };

  // Create an attribution DIV and add the attribution to the map.
  const attributionDiv = document.createElement("div");
  const attributionControl = createAttribution(map);

  attributionDiv.appendChild(attributionControl);
  map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.LEFT_BOTTOM].push(attributionDiv);
}

// Create a custom control to hold attribution text.
function createAttribution(map) {
  const attributionLabel = document.createElement("div");

  // Define CSS styles.
  attributionLabel.style.backgroundColor = "#fff";
  attributionLabel.style.opacity = "0.7";
  attributionLabel.style.fontFamily = "Roboto,Arial,sans-serif";
  attributionLabel.style.fontSize = "10px";
  attributionLabel.style.padding = "2px";
  attributionLabel.style.margin = "2px";
  attributionLabel.textContent = "Data source: Seattle GeoData";
  return attributionLabel;
}

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;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Style a polyline data feature</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." 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: "AIzaSyB41DRUbKWJHPxaFjMAwdrzWzbVKartNGg", v: "beta"});</script>
  </body>
</html>
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