Add a marker using a place name
Add a Marker using a place name or address for its location using the forward geocoder.
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>Add a marker using a place name</title><meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,user-scalable=no"><link href="https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v2.2.0/mapbox-gl.css" rel="stylesheet"><script src="https://api.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v2.2.0/mapbox-gl.js"></script><style>body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }#map { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 100%; }</style></head><body><div id="map"></div><script src="https://unpkg.com/es6-promise@4.2.4/dist/es6-promise.auto.min.js"></script><script src="https://unpkg.com/@mapbox/mapbox-sdk/umd/mapbox-sdk.min.js"></script><script> // TO MAKE THE MAP APPEAR YOU MUST // ADD YOUR ACCESS TOKEN FROM // https://account.mapbox.com mapboxgl.accessToken = '<your access token here>';var mapboxClient = mapboxSdk({ accessToken: mapboxgl.accessToken });mapboxClient.geocoding.forwardGeocode({query: 'Wellington, New Zealand',autocomplete: false,limit: 1}).send().then(function (response) {if (response &&response.body &&response.body.features &&response.body.features.length) {var feature = response.body.features[0]; var map = new mapboxgl.Map({container: 'map',style: 'mapbox://styles/mapbox/streets-v11',center: feature.center,zoom: 10});new mapboxgl.Marker().setLngLat(feature.center).addTo(map);}});</script> </body></html>