Map Settings

After creating an Interactive Map, you can now customize its functionality and control its content.

Slpy JS
All Software

Basic Settings

Here is an overview of the variables we use in our documentation that are popular terms throughout most software.

//settings
let apiKey = 'your_api_key';
let container = 'map';
let style = 'https://api.slpy.com/style/slpy-mgl-style.json?key=' +apiKey+'&lang=en';
let latitude = '0.0'; 
let longitude = '-0.0';
let center = [longitude, latitude]; 
let startZoom =  '3';

Item	Description
apiKey	Sign up or Log in, then create a Key from your account page.
container	Id name you used for your map's DIV container. You can change the id, but it should always have a class of "map".
style	A url containing the MapLibre/Mapbox Style json
Latitude and Longitude	The coordinates of where you want to center your map on loading. See our Geocoding page for help.
center	An array of longitude followed by latitude.
startZoom	Zoom level, ranging from 0-20. 0 is the whole world, and 20 is an individual house.

Supported Languages

This is a two character code that sets the language used on labels and roads for the map accross the planet. The default language is 'en' for English. In maps, you can use 'intl' for international labeling that uses the native language of the region being viewed.

Software	Method
Custom Setup	For tile endpoints, alter the subdirectory url part. For styles, use the lang parameter.

Item	Description
intl	Language is in native language of viewed map area.
ar	Arabic العربية
bn	Bengali বাংলা
de	German Deutsch
en	English English
es	Spanish Español
fr	French Français
el	Greek ελληνικά
hi	Hindi हिन्दी, हिंदी
hu	Hungarian Magyar
id	Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia
it	Italian Italiano
ja	Japanese 日本語 (にほんご)
ko	Korean 한국어
nl	Dutch, Flemish Nederlands, Vlaams
pl	Polish Język Polski, Polszczyzna
pt	Portuguese Português
ru	Russian русский
sv	Swedish Svenska
tr	Turkish Türkçe
vi	Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
zh	Chinese 中文 (Zhōngwén), 汉语, 漢語

Filter Features

To hide unneeded content features and points of interest from our Vector maps, you can use the style url's filter parameter. Raster maps not supported.

https://api.slpy.com/style/slpy-mgl-style.json?key={your_api_key}&lang={language code}&filter={filter item}

Item	Description
major	label (neighborhoods and large shopping areas or buildings), airport, college, golf, park
high	aerialway, airfield, attraction, cinema, city, department, ferry, grocery, hospital, museum, park2, station, town, village, zoo
mid	america-football, bank, building, campsite, dam, embassy, fire-station, fuel, furniture, garden, hardware, library, lodging, medical, parking, parking-garage, pharmacy, place-of-worship, police, post, religious-christian, religious-jewish, religious-muslim, school, theatre, town-hall, water
low	bicycle, bus, telephone, toilets, information
detail	atm, drinking_water, shower, monument, viewpoint, subway_entrance
other	This is all uncategorized points of interest that do not fall into one of the levels below.
Example	https://api.slpy.com/style/slpy-mgl-style.json?key=abc123&lang=en&filter=detail,low