Free Styling Alongside Mapbox, Google & Maputnik

Google has extended custom map styles to the Google Maps APIs for iOS together with Android. This way that you lot tin mail away straightaway purpose the same custom map fashion across dissimilar platforms.

The Google Maps API allows you lot to modify the colors of dissimilar map chemical factor together with to define which map elements are visible. To kickoff creating your ain custom map fashion you lot tin mail away play alongside the novel Google Maps APIs Styling Wizard. The sorcerer allows you lot to chop-chop adapt the position out of labels, landmarks together with roads that are visible on the map. It also contains a position out of pre-designed themes, such every bit the vintage together with night-time map styles.

If you lot desire to modify the await of your map fashion fifty-fifty farther only click on the 'more options' button. This volition let you lot to command which characteristic types you lot wishing to display inwards your fashion together with let you lot to modify their appearance on the map.

You tin mail away acquire to a greater extent than close custom map styles inwards the Google Maps API documentation for Android, iOS together with JavaScript.

The Google Maps API doesn't bring every bit many styling features every bit Mapbox Studio. In detail Google yet doesn't let you lot to modify the fonts of map labels. An pick that Mapbox Studio has had from the start. Choosing together with adding your ain fonts for place-labels actually does let you lot to practice distinctive custom map styles. The novel Mapbox Studio dataset editor also allows you lot to add together together with customize the await of your ain map information take away inside the same styling browser interface.


If Mapbox Studio feels also proprietary for your needs, together with you lot desire to practice together with serve your ain custom map tiles, together with then you lot mightiness desire to back upwards Maputnik. Maputnik is a novel browser based map styling editor for creating custom Mapbox GL styles.

The Maputnik editor is really like inwards pattern together with purpose to Mapbox Studio but is opened upwards root together with volition run on your ain desktop computer. The editor allows you lot to add together together with command the visibility of a attain of map elements together with define their colors.

To add together your Maputnik created custom map fashion to a map you lot only necessitate to download the Maputnik generated JSON fashion document. You tin mail away together with then purpose the fashion past times pointing to the JSON file from your Mapbox GL maps.

Maputnik is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to heighten funds to prepare the projection further. You tin mail away also thought the electrical flow projection code for Maputnik on GitHub.