PrimeFaces Cookbook

Mapping with Google Maps

The gmap component provides ways to integrate Google Maps into JSF applications. It is built upon Google Maps API V3.

How to do it...

In order to use the component, the Google Maps API script should be referenced from the page, ideally in the header section.

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=true" type="text/javascript"></script>

The sensor parameter in the URL is mandatory and it specifies whether the application requires a sensor, such as a GPS locator.

A simple definition for a placing a map canvas on the page will be as follows:

<p:gmap center="41.106261, 29.057465" zoom="10" type="hybrid" style="width:600px;height:400px" />

This output will be rendered as follows:

How it works…

The gmap component depicts ...