Google Maps vs RAML

Overview

Google Maps

Stacks42.5K

Followers29.8K

Votes568

RAML

Stacks147

Followers156

Votes39

Google Maps vs RAML: What are the differences?

Developers describe Google Maps as "Build highly customisable maps with your own content and imagery". 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. On the other hand, RAML is detailed as "RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing". RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.

Google Maps belongs to "Mapping APIs" category of the tech stack, while RAML can be primarily classified under "API Tools".

Some of the features offered by Google Maps are:

Maps Image APIs
Places API
Web Services

On the other hand, RAML provides the following key features:

Create and pull in namespaced, reusable libraries, containing data types
Annotations let you add vendor specific functionality without compromising your spec
Traits and resource Types let you take advantage of code reuse and design patterns

"Free" is the primary reason why developers consider Google Maps over the competitors, whereas "API Specification" was stated as the key factor in picking RAML.

According to the StackShare community, Google Maps has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1976 company stacks & 1093 developers stacks; compared to RAML, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Apr 4, 2019

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From a StackShare Community member: "We're a team of two starting to write a mobile app. The app will heavily rely on maps and this is where my partner and I are not seeing eye-to-eye. I would like to go with an open source solution like OpenStreetMap that is used by Apple & Foursquare. He would like to go with Google Maps since more apps use it and has better support (according to him). Mapbox is also an option but I don’t know much about it."

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Detailed Comparison

Google Maps	RAML
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.	RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) makes it easy to manage the whole API lifecycle from design to sharing. It's concise - you only write what you need to define - and reusable. It is machine readable API design that is actually human friendly.
Maps Image APIs;Places API;Web Services;Google Earth API;Maps API Licensing;Google Maps API for Work	Create and pull in namespaced, reusable libraries, containing data types; Annotations let you add vendor specific functionality without compromising your spec; Traits and resource Types let you take advantage of code reuse and design patterns; Easily define resources and methods then add as much detail as you want
Statistics
Stacks 42.5K	Stacks 147
Followers 29.8K	Followers 156
Votes 568	Votes 39
Pros & Cons
Pros 253 Free 136 Address input through maps api 82 Sharable Directions 47 Google Earth 46 Unique Cons 5 Google Attributions and logo 2 Only map allowed alongside google place autocomplete	Pros 15 API Specification 7 Human Readable 6 API Documentation 3 Design Patterns & Code Reuse 2 Automatic Generation of Mule flow

What are some alternatives to Google Maps, RAML?

Postman

It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.

Paw

Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.

Mapbox

We make it possible to pin travel spots on Pinterest, find restaurants on Foursquare, and visualize data on GitHub.

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.

Karate DSL

Combines API test-automation, mocks and performance-testing into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Besides powerful JSON & XML assertions, you can run tests in parallel for speed - which is critical for HTTP API testing.

Appwrite

Appwrite's open-source platform lets you add Auth, DBs, Functions and Storage to your product and build any application at any scale, own your data, and use your preferred coding languages and tools.

Runscope

Keep tabs on all aspects of your API's performance with uptime monitoring, integration testing, logging and real-time monitoring.

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.

OpenLayers

An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.

Insomnia REST Client

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Related Comparisons

Some of the features offered by Google Maps are:

Maps Image APIs
Places API
Web Services

On the other hand, RAML provides the following key features:

Create and pull in namespaced, reusable libraries, containing data types
Annotations let you add vendor specific functionality without compromising your spec
Traits and resource Types let you take advantage of code reuse and design patterns

"Free" is the primary reason why developers consider Google Maps over the competitors, whereas "API Specification" was stated as the key factor in picking RAML.

Google Maps vs RAML