How to install Typescript typings for google maps

Question

How can it be done - I\'ve tried combinations of

typings install [googlemaps | google.maps] [--ambient] --save

and end up with variations o

Answer 1

The new @types/google__maps works perfectly for us. The original one(@types/googlemaps) was tricky and has many browser dependencies(like HTMLElement) which would fail the TS compiling if you use it in a nodejs environment.

npm install @types/google__maps -D

So we have googlemaps, google-maps, and google__maps in DefinitelyTyped. The difference are explained below: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/pull/29625#issuecomment-429207839