What you can style on the map

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The map features you can customize are arranged in a hierarchy, and each map feature has one more style elements that you can customize. Most top-level features have one or more child map features. You have several options when customizing map styles:

• Inherit from the base map style: If you don't customize a style element for a map feature, it inherits the default style from the base map.

• Inherit from parents: Customize a style element on a parent map feature, to have all un-customized child map features below inherit the styles from their parent.

• Override the parent style: Customize a style element on a child map feature to override the parent style for that element.

What you can style for each map feature

Map features can have one or more of the following style elements that you can customize, depending on the type of map feature:

• Visibility: Whether to show or hide this feature on the map. For details, see Display or hide map features.

• Fill color: Fill color for polygons and polylines.

• Stroke color: Outline color for polygons and polylines.

• Stroke weight: Thickness of the outline line for polygons and polylines.

• Icon color: Fill color for the icons.

• Text fill color: Fill color for text labels.

• Text stroke color: Outline color for text labels.

Note: Stroke color and Stroke weight customizations are not available for the Political map features since their style conveys meaning on the map, such as indicating the type of territory. The political map features are Country, Country border, State or province, and Sublocality.

Display or hide map features

If there are map features that you either want to display or hide on your map, use the Visibility style element:

1. In the style editor, select the map feature.

2. To display the map feature: Under Visibility, select On.
   To remove the map feature from the map: Under Visibility, select Off.

Note: Not all map features are shown on the map at all zoom levels. To see the map feature displayed or hidden, you may need to zoom in or out.

Polygons and Polylines

For map feature types that are represented with a shape, such as Beach, Country, and Town square, or a line, such as Rail, Highway, and Trail, you can typically style the following elements: Visibility, Fill color, Stroke color, and Stroke weight.

Polygon styling customization example - for Reservation feature type

Polyline styling customization example - for Highway feature type

Icons and Text Labels

For map feature types that are fully or partially represented with a label, such as Points of interest or Transportation, you can usually style the following elements: Visibility, Icon color, Text fill color, and Text stroke color.

Label text and icon styling customizations example

Map feature hierarchy

These tables for the top level map features show what child map features are available under each.

Points of interest
Emergency	Fire Hospital Pharmacy Police
Entertainment	Theme park Arts Casino Cinema Historic Museum Tourist
Food and drink	Bar Cafe Restaurant Winery
Lodging
Recreation	Beach Boating Fishing Golf course Hot spring Nature reserve Park Peak Sports complex Sports field Trailhead Zoo
Retail	Grocery Shopping
Services	ATM Bank Car rental EV charging Gas Parking lot Restroom Rest stop
Transit	Airport
Other	Bridge Cemetery Government Library Military School Place of worship Town square

Infrastructure
Road network	Roads	Arterial Highway Local No outlet
	No traffic	Pedestrian mall Trail
Road shield
Railway track
Transit station	Monorail
	Rail station	Subway station
Building
Business corridor
Urban area

Political
Country
Country border
Reservation
State or province
City
Sublocality
Neighborhood
Land parcel

Natural
Continent
Island
Archipelago
Land cover	Vegetation	Dry crops Ice Crops Forest Sand Shrub Tundra
Water	Ocean Lake River Other
Background