Camera positioning and movement

The following example shows how to control animation that moves the camera to and then around a location in Photorealistic 3D Maps in Maps JavaScript.

Read the documentation.

JavaScript

async function init() {
    const { Map3DElement } = await google.maps.importLibrary("maps3d");
    const map = new Map3DElement({ center: { lat: 37.79810773998413, lng: -122.41784275049939, altitude: 89.08476932205978 }, range: 6062.016931506805, tilt: 81.17100663963272, heading: -56.047035719765596, });
    map.mode = "SATELLITE";
    document.body.append(map);
    // Used for both the fly to function and the location to fly around.
    const flyToCamera = {
        center: { lat: 21.263523536467105, lng: -157.80663691939296, altitude: 80.28936069489404 },
        range: 1500.8202963253427, tilt: 76.9173260789542, heading: -44.59196007522445,
    };
    // Fly the camera from San Francisco to Hawaii, can be controlled by a button alternatively.
    map.flyCameraTo({
        // Where we are going to.
        endCamera: flyToCamera,
        // How long we want the flight to take.
        durationMillis: 30000,
    });
    // When the animation has completed, fly around the location.
    map.addEventListener('gmp-animationend', () => {
        map.flyCameraAround({
            // Location to fly around.
            camera: flyToCamera,
            // Length of time to fly to the location.
            durationMillis: 50000,
            // Number of rotations to make in the specified time.
            rounds: 1
        });
    }, { once: true }); // Stop animation after flying around.
    // At any time stop the animation.
    map.addEventListener('gmp-click', (event) => {
        map.stopCameraAnimation();
    });
}
init();
index.js

CSS

/* * Always set the map height explicitly to define the size of the div element
 * that contains the map. 
 */
html,
map {
  height: 100%;
}
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
style.css

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Map</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />
    <script type="module" src="./index.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <!-- prettier-ignore -->
    <script>(g=>{var h,a,k,p="The Google Maps JavaScript API",c="google",l="importLibrary",q="__ib__",m=document,b=window;b=b[c]||(b[c]={});var d=b.maps||(b.maps={}),r=new Set,e=new URLSearchParams,u=()=>h||(h=new Promise(async(f,n)=>{await (a=m.createElement("script"));e.set("libraries",[...r]+"");for(k in g)e.set(k.replace(/[A-Z]/g,t=>"_"+t[0].toLowerCase()),g[k]);e.set("callback",c+".maps."+q);a.src=`https://maps.${c}apis.com/maps/api/js?`+e;d[q]=f;a.onerror=()=>h=n(Error(p+" could not load."));a.nonce=m.querySelector("script[nonce]")?.nonce||"";m.head.append(a)}));d[l]?console.warn(p+" only loads once. Ignoring:",g):d[l]=(f,...n)=>r.add(f)&&u().then(()=>d[l](f,...n))})
        ({key: "AIzaSyA6myHzS10YXdcazAFalmXvDkrYCp5cLc8", v: "beta",});</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 https://github.com/googlemaps-samples/js-api-samples.git
  cd samples/3d-camera-to-around
  npm i
  npm start