The Google Maps API Styled Maps option allows developers to customize the colors of dissimilar features on the map.
Historic Places has used this characteristic to exercise a vintage looking map fashion for its map of historic attractions together with places on the East Coast of the US. This vintage map await has been enhanced past times too using Custom Overlays to add together a orbit rose, a galleon together with a pose out of images of clouds to the map.
The vintage looking fashion is complemented past times using custom designed map markers, which are designed to resemble the actual historic locations indicated on the map.
Yarr, Pirate Maps is about other Google Map which uses the Styled Maps characteristic to exercise a vintage looking map. The map uses a few other clever tricks to exercise a distinct pirate themed design, consummate amongst animated waves, birds together with pirate ships.
The newspaper looking outcome is created past times using a pose out of background images together with z-index on the map. The colored map tiles are created using the Google Maps API Styled Maps feature. The animated waves, birds together with ships are created using animated gifs equally map markers.
The really clever characteristic on this map nevertheless is that the ships together with waves are solely placed inwards the sea, the sea-gulls solely appear almost patch together with trees solely appear inwards parks. The Google Maps Elevation API is beingness used to decide body of body of water together with shore locations. The Google Places API is beingness used to detect the locations of parks.
