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Mapbox vs Mapfit: What are the differences?
Developers describe Mapbox as "Design and publish beautiful maps". We make it possible to pin travel spots on Pinterest, find restaurants on Foursquare, and visualize data on GitHub. On the other hand, Mapfit is detailed as "Hyper-accurate map platform". Use cutting-edge maps with seamless APIs, frameworks, and data licensing at a fraction of what competitors charge.
Mapbox and Mapfit can be primarily classified as "Mapping APIs" tools.
Some of the features offered by Mapbox are:
- Develop mobile and web applications with Mapbox.js, our open-source JavaScript library.
- Build native applications on iOS with the Mapbox iOS SDK or on iOS and OS X with MBXMapKit.
- Build native applications for Android. Use Mapbox, OpenStreetMap, and other tile sources in your app, as well as overlays like GeoJSON data and interactive tooltips.
On the other hand, Mapfit provides the following key features:
- Navigate door-to-door - We have the highest accuracy geocoder worldwide. Addresses are doorway-accurate and include entrance definition, such as primary, secondary, parking garage, and freight docks.
- License data sets - Our platform includes the highest commercial quality maps available across the world. We’re better or equal to Google Maps in accuracy in every country.
- SEO Friendly - Don’t compromise on page speed for a good user experience. Your Mapfit map's load speed is unrivaled and will always be SEO friendly.
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."
I use Mapbox because We need 3D maps and navigation, it has a great plugin for React and React Native which we use. Also the Mapbox Geocoder is great.
I use OpenStreetMap because that has a strong community. It takes some time to catch up with Google Maps, but OpenStreetMap will become great solution.
Google Maps is best because it is practically free (they give you $300 in free credits per month and it's really hard to go over the free tier unless you really mean business) and it's the best!
I use Google Maps because it has a lot of great features such as Google's rich APIs, geolocation functions, navigation search feature, street map view, auto-generated 3D city map.
I use OpenStreetMap because i have the control of the environment, using Docker containers or bare-metal servers.
Pros of Mapbox
- Best mapping service outside of Google Maps28
- OpenStreetMap22
- Beautifully vectorable15
- Fluid user experience11
- Extensible8
- React/ RNative integration7
- 3D Layers5
- Low Level API4
- Affordable4
- Great customer support3
- Custom themes3
- High data volume rendering2
