What is Google Maps?
Create rich applications and stunning visualisations of your data, leveraging the comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usability of Google Maps and a modern web platform that scales as you grow.
Google Maps is a tool in the Mapping APIs category of a tech stack.
Who uses Google Maps?
Companies
7687 companies reportedly use Google Maps in their tech stacks, including Google, Lyft, and Snapchat.
Developers
16773 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Google Maps.
Google Maps Integrations
fancybox, Elementor, Anvil, Nuclino, and SerpWatch are some of the popular tools that integrate with Google Maps. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Google Maps.
Pros of Google Maps
Public Decisions about Google Maps
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Google Maps in their tech stack.
Rishikant Sharma
A huge component of our product relies on gathering public data about locations of interest. Google Places API gives us that ability in the most efficient way. Since we are primarily going to be using as google data as a source of information for our MVP, we might as well start integrating the Google Places API in our system. We have worked with Google Maps in the past and we might take some inspiration from our previous projects onto this one.
Google Maps's Features
- Maps Image APIs
- Places API
- Web Services
- Google Earth API
- Maps API Licensing
- Google Maps API for Work
Google Maps Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Google Maps?
Mapbox
We make it possible to pin travel spots on Pinterest, find restaurants on Foursquare, and visualize data on GitHub.
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
Leaflet
Leaflet is an open source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It is developed by Vladimir Agafonkin of MapBox with a team of dedicated contributors. Weighing just about 30 KB of gzipped JS code, it has all the features most developers ever need for online maps.
OpenLayers
An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.
Java Persistence API
It is a Java application programming interface specification that describes the management of relational data in applications using Java Platform, Standard Edition and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition.It provides a POJO persistence model for object-relational mapping.
