What is OpenStreetMap and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to OpenStreetMap
Google MapsCreate 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. ...
MapboxWe make it possible to pin travel spots on Pinterest, find restaurants on Foursquare, and visualize data on GitHub. ...
OpenLayersAn opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages. ...
LeafletLeaflet 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. ...
ArcGISIt 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. ...
Java Persistence APIIt is a Java application programming interface specification that describes the management of relational data in applications using Java Platform, Standard Edition and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition.It provides a POJO persistence model for object-relational mapping. ...
Google Places APIYou can provide users data on location names, addresses, ratings, reviews, contact information, and atmosphere. Local guides and users submit tens of millions of updates every day, so you can count on accurate, reliable information. ...
Here MapsThe Open Location Platform company, enables people, businesses and cities to harness the power of location ...
OpenStreetMap alternatives & related posts
Google Maps
- Free253
- Address input through maps api136
- Sharable Directions81
- Google Earth47
- Unique45
- Custom maps designing3
- Google Attributions and logo3
- Only map allowed alongside google place autocomplete1
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A huge component of our product relies on gathering public data about locations of interest. Google Places API gives us that ability in the most efficient way. Since we are primarily going to be using as google data as a source of information for our MVP, we might as well start integrating the Google Places API in our system. We have worked with Google Maps in the past and we might take some inspiration from our previous projects onto this one.
We need some advice about the map services provider. We are a mobility app that just launched 5 months ago in Tunisia offering P2P carpooling. We are currently using Google Maps API for maps (Places API, Geocoding API, Directions API & Distance Matrix API). Thus, we received expensive bills from Google Cloud following the number of requests we are using. We are looking forward to reduce the number of requests in general because we can't afford these large bills at this stage, knowing that they are going to increase proportionally to the active users of the app. We tried to optimize multiple times but it isn't enough. We are searching for optimization advice or ideas on how we use the APIs, or other map providers (like OpenStreetMap or similar) that offers free or cheaper options than Google Maps, without lacking quality of information (we are in Tunisia and we have to choose options that have enough data about Tunisia). Thanks!
- Best mapping service outside of Google Maps27
- OpenStreetMap21
- Beautifully vectorable15
- Fluid user experience11
- React/ RNative integration7
- Extensible7
- 3D Layers5
- Low Level API4
- Affordable4
- Great customer support3
- Custom themes3
- High data volume rendering2
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Which will give a better map (better view, markers options, info window) in an Android OS app?
Leaflet with Mapbox or Leaflet with OpenStreetMap?
- Flexibility13
- Maturity10
- Incredibly comprehensive, excellent support7
- Open Source7
- Choice of map providers4
- Low Level API3
- Extensible3
- Strong community3
related OpenLayers posts
- Light weight31
- Free24
- Evolutive via plugins12
- OpenStreetMap10
- Strong community9
- Choice of map providers7
- Easy API6
- Alternative to Google Maps3
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Which will give a better map (better view, markers options, info window) in an Android OS app?
Leaflet with Mapbox or Leaflet with OpenStreetMap?
- Reponsive5
- A lot of widgets4
- Data driven vizualisation4
- 3D2
- Easy tà learn2
- Easy API1
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Google Places API
related Google Places API posts
A huge component of our product relies on gathering public data about locations of interest. Google Places API gives us that ability in the most efficient way. Since we are primarily going to be using as google data as a source of information for our MVP, we might as well start integrating the Google Places API in our system. We have worked with Google Maps in the past and we might take some inspiration from our previous projects onto this one.