Polymer custom element that allows for convenient use of the Google Static Maps API.
What happens if you want to just plop down a simple map? Maybe you want to have a link to a map. In fact that's exactly what I wanted to do, but I had to format the API's URL by hand. Here we are in 2015 with all these neat polyfill-based technologies and I had to write a URL by hand. How barbaric!
So I set out on a quest to write an entire custom element so that I wouldn't have to write and maintain that ugly, convoluted, error-prone URL. Now, anybody can add a map with a single line of code.
One last note: get your own API key. Everyone is happier that way. Google, you, me, everyone. The library will still function without one, however.
- This element only understands latitudes and longitudes right now. Support for addresses and places and such will be added later.
- Markers should be grouped, as allowed by the Static Maps API, to allow for shorter URLs.
API documentation is available from index.html, and a demo is available in the demo folder.
Right now this is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, mainly because it was on the top of the list. If anyone has any reason why I should change it, drop me a line.