Google Maps vs Mapzen Search: What are the differences?
Google Maps: 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; 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..
Google Maps and Mapzen Search can be primarily classified as "Mapping APIs" tools.
Some of the features offered by Google Maps are:
- Maps Image APIs
- Places API
- Web Services
On the other hand, Mapzen Search provides the following key features:
- Autocomplete
- Search globally, find locally
- Open Data + Open Source
Mapzen Search is an open source tool with 1.69K GitHub stars and 146 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mapzen Search's open source repository on GitHub.