Google-maps – Why doesn’t Google Maps API show maps in Israel

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I wish to use Google Maps API in my website to embed a map of Israel with details of roads and streets. However, when I use it, I cannot see any road details, even that such information is available on maps.google.com.

Any idea why that is? Can it be resolved?

Best Answer

According to a Google employee in this thread, Google Maps is "not contractually allowed to expose the high quality Israel data in the API at this time." I am assuming this is for security reasons.

You can keep track of their Map coverage here.

Related Solutions

Google Maps – Custom Sized Maps with Street Names

The only way I've found to achieve this is by creating an HTML file that creates a huge iframe and loads your Google Maps page inside it:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <iframe width="4000" height="4000" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" 
     marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps">
    </iframe>
  </body>
</html>

Replace http://maps.google.com/maps in the code above with the URL generated in Google Maps when you click the link icon, and then inside Paste HTML to embed in website. Don't copy the entire <iframe ... code, just the src of the generated iframe tag.

This will create a 4000px by 4000px map. Change the width and height parameters above if that's not big enough (or too big). If your browser tries to paginate the map rather than resize it down to one page, try using a screen-capture browser extension to save a screengrab of the entire 4000x4000 page as an image, then print the image file.

A caveat, though: printing a 4000x4000 map on letter paper will produce street names that are far too small to read. In general Google's labels are sized appropriately for the zoom size, which more or less correlates with printing at that size/zoom. To print a larger (in width/height, not zoom level) map and still be able to read the labels, you'll need to print on large paper like a poster.

Google My Maps – How to Embed as Styled Maps

Use the code below (replace your my maps ID and your API key)

<html>
  <head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Embedded Map</title>
    <style>
      html, body, #map-canvas {
        height: 100%;
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 0px
      }
    </style>
    <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY&callback=initMap"></script>
    <script>
var map;
var infowindow;
function initialize() {
  var mapOptions = {gestureHandling: 'cooperative'}

  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map-canvas'), mapOptions);


  var mapLayer = new google.maps.KmlLayer({
    url: "https://www.google.com/maps/d/kml?mid=YOUR_MY_MAPS_ID"  });
  mapLayer.setMap(map);

}

google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize);

    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map-canvas"></div>
  </body>
</html>

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Google Maps – Custom Sized Maps with Street Names

Google My Maps – How to Embed as Styled Maps

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