Removing Overlays

This example creates a ground overlay on top of a map, and adds a UI control allowing users to remove the ground overlay from the map.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

// This example adds a UI control allowing users to remove the
// ground overlay from the map.

let historicalOverlay: google.maps.GroundOverlay;
let map: google.maps.Map;

function initMap(): void {
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement, {
    zoom: 13,
    center: { lat: 40.74, lng: -74.18 },
  });

  const imageBounds = {
    north: 40.773941,
    south: 40.712216,
    east: -74.12544,
    west: -74.22655,
  };

  historicalOverlay = new google.maps.GroundOverlay(
    "https://storage.googleapis.com/geo-devrel-public-buckets/newark_nj_1922-661x516.jpeg",
    imageBounds
  );

  // add event listener for click event
  document
    .getElementById("restore-overlay")!
    .addEventListener("click", restoreOverlay);
  document
    .getElementById("remove-overlay")!
    .addEventListener("click", removeOverlay);

  // restore overlay to map
  restoreOverlay();
}

function restoreOverlay() {
  historicalOverlay.setMap(map);
}

function removeOverlay() {
  historicalOverlay.setMap(null);
}

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

JavaScript

// This example adds a UI control allowing users to remove the
// ground overlay from the map.
let historicalOverlay;
let map;

function initMap() {
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    zoom: 13,
    center: { lat: 40.74, lng: -74.18 },
  });

  const imageBounds = {
    north: 40.773941,
    south: 40.712216,
    east: -74.12544,
    west: -74.22655,
  };

  historicalOverlay = new google.maps.GroundOverlay(
    "https://storage.googleapis.com/geo-devrel-public-buckets/newark_nj_1922-661x516.jpeg",
    imageBounds,
  );
  // add event listener for click event
  document
    .getElementById("restore-overlay")
    .addEventListener("click", restoreOverlay);
  document
    .getElementById("remove-overlay")
    .addEventListener("click", removeOverlay);
  // restore overlay to map
  restoreOverlay();
}

function restoreOverlay() {
  historicalOverlay.setMap(map);
}

function removeOverlay() {
  historicalOverlay.setMap(null);
}

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;
}

#floating-panel {
  position: absolute;
  top: 10px;
  left: 25%;
  z-index: 5;
  background-color: #fff;
  padding: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #999;
  text-align: center;
  font-family: "Roboto", "sans-serif";
  line-height: 30px;
  padding-left: 10px;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Removing Overlays</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="floating-panel">
      <input id="remove-overlay" type="button" value="Remove overlay" />
      <input id="restore-overlay" type="button" value="Restore overlay" />
    </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

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 -b sample-overlay-remove 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