Postman will allow us to streamline our development by letting us create, test, and debug our API endpoints more efficiently and effectively. This is crucial to us because our application will likely require several endpoints working in conjunction. The Postman interface is straightforward and powerful, allowing easily-customization requests and headers, and providing detailed API response data. Postman also has extensive support for testing, allowing the storage and execution of collections of API calls.

We will be using Google Maps Platform for both its Maps API as well as its Places API to obtain the geolocation and business information that our application will require. Based on our research, there is no equivalent free API that provides a similar feature set.