The only way I know of to create a Google/MapKit MapView in swiftui is to use UIViewRepresentable and embed in ContentView.

var body: some View {
                MapView()
                    .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
                }

The issue is how do you get access to the gmsMapView created in the UIViewRepresentable from a ViewModel? Access to gmsMapView is required to draw on the map....I asked this question on StackOverflow but got no response....link below. Thanks!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61463750/how-to-get-access-to-underlying-gmsmapview-from-uirepresentable-mapview

Hi, sorry I do not have an answer to your question.. but I'm struggling with kind of the same thing.. where to put everything without it becomming a mess.. It feels more natural to place things in a ViewModel (@ObservableObject) than @Binding & @State in every view...

Is it ok to place the initialization of MKMapView and CLLocationManager in a ViewModel? or binding it to the ViewModel from the UIViewRepresentable (initialized there)?

I'm using these references maybe they can help you somehow:

https://kavsoft.tech/Swift/Uber%20Clone/

https://adrianhall.github.io/swift/2019/11/05/swiftui-location/