Markers with Predefined Symbol Icons

This example uses a symbol to add a vector-based icon to a marker. The symbol uses one of the predefined vector paths ('CIRCLE') supplied by the Google Maps JavaScript API.

Read the documentation.

TypeScript

// This example uses a symbol to add a vector-based icon to a marker.
// The symbol uses one of the predefined vector paths ('CIRCLE') supplied by the
// Google Maps JavaScript API.

function initMap(): void {
  const map = new google.maps.Map(
    document.getElementById("map") as HTMLElement,
    {
      zoom: 4,
      center: { lat: -25.363882, lng: 131.044922 },
    }
  );

  new google.maps.Marker({
    position: map.getCenter(),
    icon: {
      path: google.maps.SymbolPath.CIRCLE,
      scale: 10,
    },
    draggable: true,
    map: map,
  });
}

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

JavaScript

// This example uses a symbol to add a vector-based icon to a marker.
// The symbol uses one of the predefined vector paths ('CIRCLE') supplied by the
// Google Maps JavaScript API.
function initMap() {
  const map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), {
    zoom: 4,
    center: { lat: -25.363882, lng: 131.044922 },
  });

  new google.maps.Marker({
    position: map.getCenter(),
    icon: {
      path: google.maps.SymbolPath.CIRCLE,
      scale: 10,
    },
    draggable: true,
    map: map,
  });
}

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;
}

style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Predefined Symbols (Marker)</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <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-marker-symbol-predefined 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