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Mapbox vs Postman: What are the differences?

Mapbox and Postman are two popular tools used in web development, but they serve different purposes. Mapbox is a mapping platform that provides APIs and SDKs for developers to integrate interactive maps and geolocation services into their applications. On the other hand, Postman is an API development and testing tool that allows developers to design, build, and test APIs efficiently.

  1. Integration: Mapbox focuses on providing geolocation services and mapping capabilities, allowing developers to display and interact with maps in their applications. It offers various APIs and SDKs that enable developers to customize the map appearance, add markers, and create interactive features. In contrast, Postman is primarily used for API development and testing. It allows developers to design and build APIs, define endpoints, and test API functionality without the need for a full-fledged application.

  2. Workflow: Mapbox offers tools and services specifically designed for map-related tasks, making it ideal for projects that heavily rely on location-based services. With Mapbox, developers can easily add and customize maps, geocode addresses, and create route directions. On the other hand, Postman focuses on streamlining the API development workflow. It provides features like request building, response analysis, and collaboration tools that make it easier for developers to create and test APIs.

  3. Integration with Third-Party Services: Mapbox offers integration with various third-party services that enhance the mapping functionality. This includes services like geocoding, routing, and real-time traffic data. These integrations provide developers with additional capabilities to build powerful location-based applications. In comparison, Postman does not provide built-in integrations to external services but allows developers to send requests to any API endpoints and analyze the responses.

  4. Collaboration and Documentation: Postman offers robust collaboration features that enable developers to share API specifications, test cases, and collections with team members. It also provides tools for documenting APIs, generating API documentation, and automatically updating it as changes are made. Mapbox, on the other hand, does not have built-in collaboration and documentation features specific to APIs, as it primarily focuses on mapping functionality.

  5. Pricing: Mapbox offers both free and paid plans, with different tiers depending on the required usage and features. The pricing is based on factors such as map views, geocoding requests, routing requests, and additional services. In contrast, Postman offers a free plan for individual users, but also provides paid plans for teams and enterprises, offering additional features and collaboration capabilities.

  6. Supported Platforms and Languages: Mapbox provides support for different platforms and languages, making it compatible with a wide range of web and mobile development frameworks. It offers SDKs and APIs for platforms like iOS, Android, JavaScript, Unity, and React Native, among others. Postman, on the other hand, is a desktop application available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. However, it also provides features like Newman, a command-line interface, for integrating Postman with other tools and automation.

In Summary, Mapbox is a mapping platform that offers APIs and SDKs for integrating interactive maps and geolocation services into applications, while Postman is an API development and testing tool that streamlines the workflow of building and testing APIs. Mapbox focuses on mapping functionality and location-based services, while Postman is more geared towards API design, testing, and collaboration.

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Jagdeep Singh
Tech Lead at ucreate.it · | 8 upvotes · 398.1K views

I use Postman because of the ease of team-management, using workspaces and teams, runner, collections, environment variables, test-scripts (post execution), variable management (pre and post execution), folders (inside collections, for better management of APIs), newman, easy-ci-integration (and probably a few more things that I am not able to recall right now).

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I use Swagger UI because it's an easy tool for end-consumers to visualize and test our APIs. It focuses on that ! And it's directly embedded and delivered with the APIs. Postman's built-in tools aren't bad, but their main focus isn't the documentation and also, they are hosted outside the project.

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I recommend Postman because it's easy to use with history option. Also, it has very great features like runner, collections, test scripts runners, defining environment variables and simple exporting and importing data.

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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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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.

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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.

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Blair Gemmer
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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!

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Shuuji TAKAHASHI
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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.

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Its open source and we use it.

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I use OpenStreetMap because i have the control of the environment, using Docker containers or bare-metal servers.

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Stephen Fox
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Postman supports automation and organization in a way that Insomnia just doesn't. Admittedly, Insomnia makes it slightly easy to query the data that you get back (in a very MongoDB-esque query language) but Postman sets you up to develop the code that you would use in development/testing right in the editor.

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Pros of Mapbox
Pros of Postman
  • 28
    Best mapping service outside of Google Maps
  • 22
    OpenStreetMap
  • 15
    Beautifully vectorable
  • 11
    Fluid user experience
  • 8
    Extensible
  • 7
    React/ RNative integration
  • 5
    3D Layers
  • 4
    Low Level API
  • 4
    Affordable
  • 3
    Great customer support
  • 3
    Custom themes
  • 2
    High data volume rendering
  • 490
    Easy to use
  • 369
    Great tool
  • 276
    Makes developing rest api's easy peasy
  • 156
    Easy setup, looks good
  • 144
    The best api workflow out there
  • 53
    It's the best
  • 53
    History feature
  • 44
    Adds real value to my workflow
  • 43
    Great interface that magically predicts your needs
  • 35
    The best in class app
  • 12
    Can save and share script
  • 10
    Fully featured without looking cluttered
  • 8
    Collections
  • 8
    Option to run scrips
  • 8
    Global/Environment Variables
  • 7
    Shareable Collections
  • 7
    Dead simple and useful. Excellent
  • 7
    Dark theme easy on the eyes
  • 6
    Awesome customer support
  • 6
    Great integration with newman
  • 5
    Documentation
  • 5
    Simple
  • 5
    The test script is useful
  • 4
    Saves responses
  • 4
    This has simplified my testing significantly
  • 4
    Makes testing API's as easy as 1,2,3
  • 4
    Easy as pie
  • 3
    API-network
  • 3
    I'd recommend it to everyone who works with apis
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    Mocking API calls with predefined response
  • 2
    Now supports GraphQL
  • 2
    Postman Runner CI Integration
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    Easy to setup, test and provides test storage
  • 2
    Continuous integration using newman
  • 2
    Pre-request Script and Test attributes are invaluable
  • 2
    Runner
  • 2
    Graph
  • 1
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Cons of Mapbox
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    • 10
      Stores credentials in HTTP
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      Bloated features and UI
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      Cumbersome to switch authentication tokens
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      Poor GraphQL support
    • 5
      Expensive
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      Not free after 5 users
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      Can't prompt for per-request variables
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      Import swagger
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      Support websocket
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      Import curl

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

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    What are some alternatives to Mapbox and Postman?
    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.
    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.
    CARTO
    The CARTO platform empowers everyone, from business analysts to data scientists, to turn location data into business outcomes. We accelerate innovation, power new use cases and disrupt business models through Location Intelligence.
    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.
    ArcGIS
    It is a geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information. It is used for creating and using maps, compiling geographic data, analyzing mapped information, sharing and much more.
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