Map basics

Show the fullscreen button

One toggle adds a button that lets visitors expand your map to fill their whole screen. Especially useful for embedded maps on phones.

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The fullscreen button lets a visitor blow your map up to fill their entire screen. It's an option you turn on, and it makes a real difference for maps embedded in a small box on a page.

Turn it on

  1. Open the Settings tab

    Edit the map and go to the Settings tab.

  2. Turn on Fullscreen button

    Under General, tick Fullscreen button ("Show a button that expands the map to fullscreen"). A fullscreen icon then appears among the on-map controls.

When it helps most

If people mainly reach your map embedded in your own website, it often sits in a fairly small frame. The fullscreen button gives them a one-tap way to see the whole thing properly, which matters most on phones where an embedded map is otherwise tiny. For a standalone map that already fills the page, it's less essential.

With the button off, the map stays in its box and there's no way for a visitor to expand it. Turn it on if your map is busy or embedded small.

What visitors do with it

For how the button behaves from the visitor's side, including how to leave fullscreen again, see View a map in fullscreen.

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