gmaprium

Folium-style Python helpers for rendering Google Maps HTML.

gmaprium can be used to create standalone HTML maps, display maps in Jupyter Notebook, add Google tile layers to existing Folium maps, and embed maps in Streamlit apps.

Installation

pip install gmaprium

Usage

from gmaprium import Choropleth, Draw, GeoJson, HeatMap, LayerControl, Map, Marker, Polygon

m = Map(
    location=[35.6812, 139.7671],
    zoom_start=12,
    api_key="YOUR_GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY",
    map_type="roadmap",
    height="500px",
    fullscreen_control=False,
    street_view_control=False,
)

Marker([35.6812, 139.7671], popup="Tokyo Station", tooltip="Tokyo", name="Stations").add_to(m)
Polygon(
    [[35.70, 139.70], [35.70, 139.82], [35.62, 139.82], [35.62, 139.70]],
    name="Area",
).add_to(m)
Choropleth(
    geo_data={
        "type": "FeatureCollection",
        "features": [
            {
                "type": "Feature",
                "properties": {"id": "central"},
                "geometry": {
                    "type": "Polygon",
                    "coordinates": [[[139.735, 35.675], [139.755, 35.675], [139.755, 35.690], [139.735, 35.690], [139.735, 35.675]]],
                },
            }
        ],
    },
    data={"central": 42},
    key_on="feature.properties.id",
    name="Choropleth",
    legend_name="Sample values",
).add_to(m)
HeatMap([[35.6812, 139.7671, 2], [35.6895, 139.6917, 1]], name="Heat").add_to(m)
Draw(export=True, filename="drawn.geojson").add_to(m)
LayerControl().add_to(m)

# Full HTML document.
m.save("map.html")

# Embeddable HTML fragment for web apps.
html = m.render_fragment()

You can also pass the API key with the GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY environment variable.

Set fullscreen_control=True or fullscreen_control=False to control Google Maps SDK's built-in fullscreen button. Set street_view_control=True or street_view_control=False to control the built-in Street View button.

Markers use Google's AdvancedMarkerElement. If you add markers without passing map_id=..., the renderer uses Google's DEMO_MAP_ID for local testing.

Supported Elements

• Map
• Marker
• Polyline
• Polygon
• Circle
• GeoJson
• Choropleth
• Draw
• HeatMap
• LayerControl

GeoJson accepts GeoJSON dictionaries, JSON file paths, objects with __geo_interface__, and GeoPandas-like objects with to_json().

Choropleth accepts GeoJSON plus Folium-style data, columns, key_on, bins, fill/stroke styling, missing-value styling, highlight, and legend options. It renders as a Google Maps Data layer and can be toggled with LayerControl.

Draw adds a Folium-style drawing toolbar for markers, polylines, polygons, rectangles, and circles. Set export=True to let users download drawn features as GeoJSON. Use draw_options to show or hide specific drawing tools:

Draw(
    draw_options={
        "marker": True,
        "polyline": False,
        "polygon": True,
        "rectangle": False,
        "circle": True,
    },
    export=True,
).add_to(m)

HeatMap uses a canvas overlay instead of Google's deprecated JavaScript HeatmapLayer. It ports the Leaflet.heat/simpleheat rendering model, including radius, blur, min_opacity, max_zoom, max_value, and gradient. The defaults match Leaflet.heat/simpleheat on a typical OSM map: radius=25, blur=15, min_opacity=0.05, max_zoom=18, max_value=1.0, and the blue-cyan-lime-yellow-red gradient. Lower zoom levels are intentionally faded by Leaflet.heat's max_zoom - zoom intensity scale. Set max_zoom closer to your initial zoom if the heat fades too quickly.

Configuration Reference

Map

Option	Default	Description
location	required	Initial map center as [lat, lng].
zoom_start	10	Initial Google Maps zoom level.
api_key	None	Google Maps API key. If omitted, GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY is used.
map_type	"roadmap"	One of "roadmap", "satellite", "hybrid", or "terrain".
width	"100%"	CSS width for HTML and notebook rendering. Integers are treated as pixels.
height	"100%"	CSS height for HTML and notebook rendering. Integers are treated as pixels.
map_id	None	Google Maps Map ID. Markers and Draw use DEMO_MAP_ID if needed and no ID is supplied.
fullscreen_control	None	Enable or disable Google Maps fullscreen control. None leaves the SDK default.
street_view_control	None	Enable or disable Google Maps Street View control. None leaves the SDK default.
options	{}	Extra raw Google Maps JavaScript MapOptions.

Vector Elements

Element	Options
Marker	location, popup, tooltip, icon, draggable, name
Polyline	locations, color, weight, opacity, name
Polygon	locations, color, fill_color, fill_opacity, weight, name
Circle	location, radius, color, fill_color, fill_opacity, weight, name
GeoJson	data, name, style_function

name makes the element available in LayerControl. style_function is called with a sample GeoJSON feature and should return Google Maps style options such as fillColor, fillOpacity, strokeColor, and strokeWeight.

Draw

Option	Default	Description
export	False	Show the Export button when True.
filename	"data.geojson"	Download filename used by the Export button.
position	"topleft"	Toolbar position: "topleft", "topright", "bottomleft", or "bottomright".
show_geometry_on_click	True	Show drawn feature GeoJSON in an alert when a completed drawing is clicked.
draw_options	{}	Drawing tool visibility and style options.
feature_group	None	Reserved for Folium compatibility; currently unsupported.
edit_options	{}	Reserved for Folium compatibility.
on	{}	Reserved for Folium-style event compatibility.

draw_options supports these visibility keys: marker, polyline, polygon, rectangle, and circle. Set a key to False to hide that drawing tool.

Draw(draw_options={"marker": True, "polyline": False, "circle": False}).add_to(m)

The same dictionary also accepts style keys used for newly drawn shapes: strokeColor, strokeOpacity, strokeWeight, fillColor, and fillOpacity.

Choropleth

Option	Default	Description
geo_data	required	GeoJSON dict, path, __geo_interface__ object, or GeoPandas-like object.
data	None	Mapping, sequence of pairs, Series-like, or DataFrame-like data to join.
columns	None	Key/value column names for DataFrame-like data.
key_on	None	GeoJSON feature path such as "feature.properties.id".
bins	6	Number of bins or explicit bin edges.
fill_color	"Blues" when data is supplied	ColorBrewer palette name, or a CSS color when no joined data is supplied.
nan_fill_color	"black"	Fill color for missing or non-numeric values.
fill_opacity	0.6	Fill opacity for matched values.
nan_fill_opacity	fill_opacity	Fill opacity for missing values.
line_color	"black"	Boundary color.
line_weight	1	Boundary width.
line_opacity	1	Boundary opacity.
name	None	Layer name used by LayerControl.
legend_name	""	Caption for the generated legend.
highlight	False	Highlight features on hover.
use_jenks	False	Use Jenks natural breaks. Requires jenkspy.

topojson is not supported yet. threshold_scale is accepted as a Folium-compatible alias for bins.

HeatMap

Option	Default	Description
data	required	Points as [lat, lng], [lat, lng, weight], or {"location": [lat, lng], "weight": n}.
name	None	Layer name used by LayerControl.
radius	25	Point radius in pixels.
blur	15	Blur radius in pixels.
min_opacity	0.05	Minimum alpha for rendered points.
max_zoom	18	Leaflet.heat-style zoom intensity reference.
max_value	1.0	Weight value that maps to full intensity.
gradient	simpleheat gradient	Mapping of stop positions to CSS colors.
opacity	1.0	Reserved overall layer opacity option.
intensity	1.0	Reserved intensity multiplier option.
threshold	0.03	Reserved low-alpha threshold option.
scale_radius_with_zoom	False	Reserved option for zoom-scaled radius.
min_radius	6	Minimum radius when zoom scaling is enabled.
max_radius	240	Maximum radius when zoom scaling is enabled.

Streamlit

Option	Default	Description
map_obj	required	gmaprium.Map instance to render.
height	map height in pixels	Component height. If omitted, pixel values from Map.height are used.
width	None	Component width. None lets Streamlit choose the width.
scrolling	False	Enable iframe scrolling.
returned_objects	["all_drawings", "last_active_drawing"]	Draw result fields to return. Use [] to avoid reruns from Draw updates.
key	None	Stable Streamlit component key. Recommended when using Draw.
default	generated from returned_objects	Initial return value before any Draw action.

st_gmaprium() returns a dictionary with all_drawings and last_active_drawing by default. Both values use GeoJSON Feature dictionaries.

The legacy google_tiles_url() and add_google_tiles() helpers are still available for projects that want to add Google tile URLs to an existing Folium map.

Notebook

In Jupyter Notebook, display the map by returning the Map object as the last expression in a cell.

import os

from gmaprium import HeatMap, LayerControl, Map, Marker

os.environ["GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY"] = "your-api-key"

m = Map(location=[35.6812, 139.7671], zoom_start=12, height="500px")
Marker([35.6812, 139.7671], popup="Tokyo Station", name="Markers").add_to(m)
HeatMap([[35.6812, 139.7671, 1.0]], name="Heat", max_zoom=14).add_to(m)
LayerControl().add_to(m)

m

You can also display explicitly:

from IPython.display import HTML, display

display(HTML(m.render_fragment()))

The notebook example is available at examples/example.ipynb.

Folium Extension

If you already use Folium, add Google tile layers to a folium.Map with add_google_tiles().

import folium

from gmaprium import add_google_tiles

m = folium.Map(location=[35.6812, 139.7671], zoom_start=12, tiles=None)
add_google_tiles(m, api_key="your-api-key", map_type="roadmap", name="Google Roadmap")
add_google_tiles(m, api_key="your-api-key", map_type="satellite", name="Google Satellite", show=False)

folium.LayerControl().add_to(m)
m.save("folium_google_tiles.html")

This Folium extension only adds Google tile layers. It does not enable the Google Maps JavaScript API renderer or gmaprium's HeatMap.

The Folium example is available at examples/folium_extension.py.

Streamlit

Use st_gmaprium() to render a gmaprium.Map inside a Streamlit app. Draw results are returned in a st_folium-style dictionary with all_drawings and last_active_drawing.

import os

import streamlit as st

from gmaprium import Draw, Map, Marker, st_gmaprium

api_key = os.environ["GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY"]

m = Map(location=[35.6812, 139.7671], zoom_start=12, api_key=api_key, height="600px")
Marker([35.6812, 139.7671], popup="Tokyo Station").add_to(m)
Draw(export=True).add_to(m)

draw_result = st_gmaprium(m, key="main-map")
st.json(draw_result)

Install the optional dependency and run the example app:

python -m pip install -e ".[dev,streamlit]"
export GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY="your-api-key"
streamlit run examples/streamlit_app.py

The Streamlit example is available at examples/streamlit_app.py.

Development

python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest