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Google Maps is one of the most utilized services in the world. Its APIs are among the best available for creating interactive digital maps. There’s a wide range of use cases for maps, including ride-hailing apps, looking up new restaurants, and even checking out the traffic situation on roads.

In this course, you’ll be introduced to two of Google Maps’s most utilized APIs: Embed Maps API and Maps JavaScript API. Through examples and code exercises, you will master key concepts of Google Maps development, including drawing, events, controls, and interactions.

By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to create impressive web applications with unique and interactive maps.

A Beginner's Guide to the Google Maps API

We can customize a map for a specific country or region by changing its default language settings or specifying a region code. This changes the map’s behavior based on the country.

## Localize a map

The Maps JavaScript API adapts to the user’s preferred language setting specified in the browser by default. However, the map can be forced to display information in another language if the `language` parameter is added to the URL in the `script` tag when the Maps JavaScript API is loaded.

In the code snippet below, two-character language and region codes are added in respective placeholders of the country whose map needs to be localized:

We can customize a map for a specific country or region by changing its default language settings or specifying a region code. This changes the map’s behavior based on the country.

# Localize a map

The Maps JavaScript API adapts to the user’s preferred language setting specified in the browser by default. However, the map can be forced to display information in another language if the `language` parameter is added to the URL in the `script` tag when the Maps JavaScript API is loaded.

In the code snippet below, two-character language and region codes are added in respective placeholders of the country whose map needs to be localized:

Learn how to localize a map using the Google Maps JS API.



Map Localization

Learn how to localize a map using the Google Maps JS API.

Introduction

Maps Embed API and its Different Modes

Maps JS API Basics

Controls and Interactions

Events

Drawing on the Map

Conclusion

Appendix

Map Localization

Localize a map