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Feature Request FR-4335
Product Area Page Components
Status CLOSED

4 Voters

Native APEX Maps - Google Maps

craig.tarrant Public · Mar 17 2025

Idea Summary
Would like to see integration between Oracle APEX Native Maps region and Google Maps. ie would like to see Google Maps as a background option.

Use Case
Our users are familiar with Google Maps from their personal usage. Also, we have some usage of Jeff Kemp Google Maps plugin, so again users are already familiar with Google Maps look and feel to view data from our business system. As a general point, prefer native APEX functionality rather than plugins. The Oracle World Map is not too dissimilar but lacks street view and satellite view the users are familiar with.

We do have Google Maps API key so familiar and okay with usage costs of Google maps.

Preferred Solution (Optional)

We reviewed this idea carefully, and while it was interesting, we concluded that it is unlikely to make its way into APEX in the foreseeable future.

Comments

Comments

  • carsten.czarski APEX Team OP 7 months ago

    The Map Region is based on the MapLibre GL JS Javascript library.  I have seen that there are approaches to integrate a Tile Layer from Google Maps into MapLibre using a MapLibre Plug-In. 

    Such would allow you to integrate the map tiles from Google. However, functionality like Street View indeed requires the Google Maps API(!) to be used; this will not work well together with MapLibre. We need to have a closer look into the requirements and potential caveats of utilizing such plug-in in APEX.

    Regarding the background maps: Did you look into the OSM Positron or OSM Bright Map Backgrounds. And in addition to that, with APEX 23.2 or higher, the map region supports including custom map backgrounds (e.g. from MapTiler.com) - so, you can get Satellite backgrounds from there.

    So, this comes to an important question: 

    Are you after getting the tiles (thus the look and feel), or are you more after getting the advanced functionality like StreetView, one can only get by utilizing Google Maps JS API directly?

  • craig.tarrant OP 5 months ago

    Appreciate the consideration.

    We are more after getting the tiles (look and feel).

    Thanks anyway.