Playing Alongside Map Styles

If you lot similar your maps amongst a niggling way your options precisely got wider. Mapzen has released a novel browser based map way editor. Tangram Play is a real-time tool for editing Tangram map styles straight inwards your browser.

Tangram Play is dissever into 2 principal areas the map too the map editor. You tin conform the way of whatever of the map layers straight inwards the map editor too all the changes you lot brand to the way volition live on forthwith shown inwards the map pane. The editor includes color pickers inwards the map editing pane which enables you lot to precisely select the colors you lot desire for dissimilar elements on the map from the pop-up color picker.

When you lot are happy amongst your map way you lot tin salve your style. You tin too thence portion the way amongst others past times getting a shareable link to your styled map. If you lot desire to piece of job the way inwards your Tangram maps you lot tin choose handgrip of the JavaScript code which you lot tin too thence piece of job amongst your Mapzen account.


Mapbox GL also has its ain browser based map way editor. Mapbox Studio. Mapbox Studio gives you lot consummate command over the blueprint of your Mapbox created maps. It allows you lot to define the colors of map layers, alter the size & fonts of map labels too fifty-fifty add together & way your ain information on the map.

Mapbox Studio is belike the most consummate browser based way editor for interactive maps. It currently gives you lot the selection to customize the expect too experience of to a greater extent than map features than other map way editors. The mightiness to add together too way information to the base of operations map also agency that you lot convey command non alone of the expect of your base of operations map but of your completed map visualization of geographical data.


The Google Maps API also allows you lot to alter the colors of dissimilar map elements too to define which map elements are visible on your finished map. To firstly creating your ain custom map styles for Google Maps you lot tin piece of job the Google Maps APIs Styling Wizard. The sorcerer allows you lot to speedily conform the disclose of labels, landmarks too roads that are visible on the map. It also contains a disclose of pre-designed themes, such equally the vintage too night-time map styles.

If you lot desire to alter the expect of your map way fifty-fifty farther precisely click on the 'more options' button. This volition allow you lot to command which characteristic types you lot wishing to display inwards your way too allow you lot to alter their appearance on the map.

You tin acquire to a greater extent than virtually custom map styles inwards the Google Maps API documentation for Android, iOS too JavaScript.