Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be using the google maps api inside the tkinter gui window and we will be placing markers using the tkintermapview library. All the full source code of the application is shown below.
Get Started
In order to get started you need to install the below library using the pip command as shown below
pip install tkintermapview
After that we need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code
app.py
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import tkinter from tkintermapview import TkinterMapView root_tk = tkinter.Tk() root_tk.title("map_view_simple_example.py") root_tk.geometry(f"{600}x{400}") |
As you can see we are importing the tkintermapview library at the top and then we are setting the title of the gui window and then we are setting the geometry which is the width and height of the gui window.
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widgetmap_widget = TkinterMapView(root_tk, width=600, height=400, corner_radius=0) widgetmap_widget.pack(fill="both", expand=True) |
As you can see we are initializing the TkinterMapView library and inside that we are passing the width and height. And then we are adding this tkintermapview into the gui window using the pack() method.
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widgetmap_widget.set_tile_server("https://mt0.google.com/vt/lyrs=m&hl=en&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}&s=Ga", max_zoom=22) widgetmap_widget.set_address("Wellington New Zealand", marker=True) root_tk.mainloop() |
As you can see we are setting the src of the map widget and then we are setting the address of the map widget and based upon this address we are plotting the red markers on the map. And then we are starting the tkinter app.
