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Interactive Map Layers

Interactive Map Layers

Add visual layers such as drawings, images, and 3D buildings to your map, and control their appearance, visibility, and interactivity.

Understanding Layers

Learn how Mapme layers work, including drawings, image overlays, text, and 3D buildings. Discover visibility rules, interactivity, display order, and common use cases.

Drawing Lines and Shapes on Maps: Step-by-Step Guide

Enhance your maps with Mapme versatile drawing tools. Create lines & shapes manually, add regions from the Geo Library, or import GIS files.

How to Add Image Overlays to Your Interactive Map

Learn how to add image overlays on your interactive maps. Perfect for floor plans, site maps, and custom visualizations.

How to Highlight Specific 3D Buildings on Your Map

Create interactive 3D Building Layers to highlight specific buildings on your map. Control colors, visibility rules, and interactivity for selected buildings.

Mapme Geo Library

Highlight countries, states, cities, and more on your maps with a single click. Create interactive regions with no coding.

Customize Map Drawing Styles

Learn how to customize map lines and shapes in Mapme with colors, opacity, borders, fill patterns, line widths, dashed lines, arrows, and more.

Add Drawings with KML and GPX File Import

Learn how to import KML and GPX files into Mapme to create drawing layers for routes, boundaries, and custom geographic data.

Show lines between markers

You can easily connect your markers with a line to create a path between your markers.

How to Create 3D Shapes on Your Map?

Draw shapes, customize their color, and extrude them to a specific height to create realistic 3D structures such as buildings and landmarks.

Auto-Match Drawing Color to Marker

Automatically color your drawings in Mapme based on associated locations. Simplify map updates and save time with dynamic color syncing.

Draw Curved Lines on Your Map

Learn to draw smooth curved lines on your map using the manual method or the built-in curve tool. Clear, step-by-step instructions.

Add a Radius Tool for Map Users

Enable the radius tool on your map to let users draw distance circles directly on the map. Perfect for real estate analysis, event planning, and area exploration.

Advanced Drawing Settings for Interactive Maps

Save time and enhance user experience with advanced drawing settings in Mapme. Automatically match colors, control visibility by category, and more.

How to Georeference an Image: Image Layers vs. Tilesets

Compare two ways to georeference images for interactive maps: Mapme Image Layers with Free Transform or hosted tilesets created with MapTiler or QGIS.

How to Manage Layers on Your Map

Learn how to manage map layers in Mapme. Reorder layers, search by name, show or hide them, and use bulk actions to duplicate or delete multiple layers.

How to Add a Custom Border Around Shapes

Learn how to add a thick, dashed, dotted, or patterned border around shapes in Mapme using a duplicated layer and Outline only styling.