Maps

Four sub-tabs configure everything map-related.

Google Map API

Paste your API key and hit Test key to verify it live. The card lists exactly what to enable in Google Cloud Console — all four on the same project:

• Maps JavaScript API — renders the maps
• Places API — address search and suggestions
• Geocoding API — resolves picked map points to addresses
• Directions API — route line plus trip distance and duration

Billing must be enabled on the Google project. Restrict the key (HTTP referrers + those four APIs) before going live.

Default Map

• Center point — pick on a map (search, click, or drag the pin); used by the booking-form map and the address-pick popup before a route exists
• Default zoom — slider from world to street level
• Map style — Roadmap, Dark, Light, Satellite, Hybrid, or Terrain
• Live preview underneath

Service Area

Draw circular service areas (name + center + radius in km). Trips whose pickup or drop-off falls outside every area switch to price-on-request — the customer submits a quote instead of auto-pricing. Leave the list empty to auto-price anywhere.

Map Preferences

• Restrict suggestions to country — limit address autocomplete (admin and booking form) to one country
• Distance units — Automatic (locale), Miles, or Kilometres for what the customer sees
• Avoid — Highways / Tolls / Ferries switches applied to route and distance calculations