How to display a scale control

This tutorial shows how to display a scale control.

  1. Copy the following code, paste it into your favorite text editor, and save it as a .html file.

  2. Replace YOUR_MAPTILER_API_KEY_HERE with your actual MapTiler API key.

  3. The next it’s up to you. You can start the map in a different place by modifying the starting position and starting zoom, and you can change the look of the map to any of our styles, or yours, by updating the style URL. See what’s available here.</li>

  4. Install the npm package.

  5. Include the CSS file in the <head> of your HTML file.

    Including it with a <link> in the head of the document via the CDN is the simplest and easiest way to provide the CSS, but it is also bundled in the MapLibre module, meaning that if you have a bundler that can handle CSS, you can import the CSS from maplibre-gl/dist/maplibre-gl.css.

  6. Include the following code in your JavaScript file (Example: app.js).

  7. Add the scaleControl to the map.

Learn more

Check out the How to change the map labels language based on visitor’s location to learn how to get the country based on visitor’s location. This would allow you to change the control units depending on the country. For example

Visit the JavaScript Maps API reference to know all the scaleControl options. Like change the display distance units

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