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MAPS.ME vs Mapzen Search: What are the differences?

What is MAPS.ME? Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS/Android. MAPS.ME is an open source cross-platform offline maps application, built on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data. It was publicly released for iOS and Android.

What is Mapzen Search? An open source geocoder built with Elasticsearch. Pelias is an open-source geocoder built on Node.js and Elasticsearch It supports numerous open-data projects out of the box and also has robust support for custom data..

MAPS.ME and Mapzen Search can be primarily classified as "Mapping APIs" tools.

Some of the features offered by MAPS.ME are:

  • Totally Offline
  • WorldWide
  • Really Fast

On the other hand, Mapzen Search provides the following key features:

  • Autocomplete
  • Search globally, find locally
  • Open Data + Open Source

MAPS.ME and Mapzen Search are both open source tools. MAPS.ME with 3.05K GitHub stars and 660 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Mapzen Search with 1.69K GitHub stars and 146 GitHub forks.

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What is MAPS.ME?

MAPS.ME is an open source cross-platform offline maps application, built on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data. It was publicly released for iOS and Android.

What is Mapzen Search?

Pelias is an open-source geocoder built on Node.js and Elasticsearch. It supports numerous open-data projects out of the box and also has robust support for custom data.

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