With Google map’s new visual refresh, I’ve had to tweak a lot of the custom map colors for Hotwire’s hotel map. While many of the things were better, some stay the same… Here’s my learning and some tips to anyone looking very closely at styling google maps.
Color polygons still don’t play nice with labels:
With V3, you still cannot put a polygon of color underneath Google’s map labels. Thus important map wayfaring indicators are hidden the more opaque you make your polygon’s fill.
Due to this, fill color can’t be very opaque or else labels won’t show through. And the strength and contrast of the color is lost. See how red is now pink. Another side-effect of less opaque fills is that the color behind it shows through more.