MapTiler Search and Geocoding control for MapTiler SDK, MapLibre GL JS, Leaflet and OpenLayers

The Javascript & TypeScript Map Control component for MapTiler Geocoding service! Easy to be integrated into any JavaScript mapping application.

The MapTiler Geocoding control implements a powerful search box in your maps or online forms, enabling your application users to find any place on Earth down to individual addresses. Use the search box control with MapTiler SDK JS (or other map libraries like Leaflet, MapLibre GL JS, OpenLayers).

📖 Documentation   📦 NPM Package   🌐 Website   🔑 Get API Key

📦 Installation

Install the Geocoding control unsing npm, together with your map library (MapTiler SDK as an example):

npm install --save @maptiler/geocoding-control @maptiler/sdk

🚀 Basic Usage

Use the component in your mapping application (MapTiler SDK as an example):

import * as maptilersdk from "@maptiler/sdk";
import { GeocodingControl } from "@maptiler/geocoding-control/maptilersdk";
import "@maptiler/sdk/dist/maptiler-sdk.css";

maptilersdk.config.apiKey = "YOUR_MAPTILER_API_KEY_HERE";

const map = new maptilersdk.Map({
  container: "map", // id of HTML container element
});

const gc = new GeocodingControl();

map.addControl(gc);

💡 Related Examples

• With MapTiler SDK
• With MapLibre GL
• With Leaflet
• With OpenLayers
• As a React component
• As Svelte component
• As vanilla JavaScript module

Check out the full list of MapTiler geocoding examples

📘 API Reference

For detailed guides, API reference, and advanced examples, visit our comprehensive documentation:

API documentation

Geocoding service API documentation

UMD global variables

💬 Support

• 📚 Documentation - Comprehensive guides and API reference
• ✉️ Contact us - Get in touch or submit a request
• 🐦 Twitter/X - Follow us for updates

🤝 Contributing

We love contributions from the community! Whether it's bug reports, feature requests, or pull requests, all contributions are welcome:

• Fork the repository and create your branch from main
• If you've added code, add tests that cover your changes
• Ensure your code follows our style guidelines
• Give your pull request a clear, descriptive summary
• Open a Pull Request with a comprehensive description
• Read the CONTRIBUTING file

Development

Building

npm install && npm run build

You will find compilation result in the dist directory.

Running in dev mode

npm install && VITE_API_KEY=YOUR_MAPTILER_API_KEY_HERE npm run dev

Alternatively, you can provide your API key via key URL param.

POI icons and bundlers

POI icons are served from CDN per default. If there is an requirement to serve them from a different location and the control is used in the application which is built with Web Application bundler (like Webpack or Vite) then it is necessary to do some extra configuration. Icons are bundled in the library and you can find them in node_modules/@maptiler/geocoding-control/icons. Configure your bundler and/or provide iconsBaseUrl option for the icons to be properly resolved. You can also copy icons from that directory to your public directory.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License – see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgements

The Geocoding control uses the MapTiler Geocoding API. You can use the API directly from your web or backend applications or use the API Client JS library.

With this control, users of mapping application can:

• Find any place on Earth (States, Cities, Streets, Addresses, POIs, ...) down to the address level
• Find and identify objects or place names using a coordinate pair or a single mouse click (reverse geocoding)
• Restrict the search area to a specific country, bounding box, or proximity
• Highlight searched results on the map (marker or full geometry)
• Autocomplete words while typing
• and much more. Check out the Geocoding Control API reference to see all the options.

The component can be used as an ES module or UMD module with or without bundler.

Geocoding control itself is provided as a Web component which can be used with React, Svelte, and any other modern frontend library, or without any library at all.