fr(google-maps): add forRoot() for global initializing

Feature Description

like many modules already use it, it would be nice if you could initialize the Google Map with the method forRoot() in app.module.ts with given parameters.

Use Case

initialize with parameters like:

• apiKey (link apiKey from environment.ts)
• language
• region
• styles (set global styles for map and marker)

These are the first ones I thought of. I’m sure there are many more.

[mbehrlich]

It’s been brought up often, and we’ve discussed this periodically. One of the reasons we’ve never done this is that we want the user to be aware of the scripts that are being introduced on their page, and we’re worried about obfuscating that from the user. Regarding global options like styling, I will look into this further.

[devversion]

Thanks for clarifying. So I think there are two parts you’re requesting:

1. Global options for the API loading mechanism. That would also involve us automatically loading the google-maps API (currently that’s up to the user)
2. Global options for actual google-map parts (such as google.maps.MapTypeStyle).

Both of those things sound like reasonable feature requests to me. I’m slightly unsure about (1) as it seems like the intention was that the API-loading responsibility is left to the consumers. Not sure about that though.

I assume @mbehrlich, if available, might be best to answer this.