Example of angula2-google-maps component usage in ionic2
It was very problematic for me to init angular2-google-maps component in Ionic2 application, because Ionic build task fails for angular2-google-maps module.
The issue is caused by Angular2 ahead of time compilation called ngc, which is used for Ionic2 production build See this code https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-scripts/blob/master/src/build.ts#L51
The work around was to add --dev flag in package.json file for build task. https://github.com/modularcoder/ionic2-angular2-google-maps-example/blob/master/package.json#L7
There's an issue open in angular2-google-maps component repo, which is still not closed sebholstein/angular-google-maps#629 (comment)