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ArcGIS vs Google Maps: What are the differences?
What is ArcGIS? *A geographic information system for working with maps *. 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.
What is 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.
ArcGIS and Google Maps belong to "Mapping APIs" category of the tech stack.
Google, Lyft, and Square are some of the popular companies that use Google Maps, whereas ArcGIS is used by Scarabee Aviation Group, Zoteca, and GRFN. Google Maps has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2501 company stacks & 6357 developers stacks; compared to ArcGIS, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
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."
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 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.
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 ArcGIS
- Reponsive7
- A lot of widgets4
- Data driven vizualisation4
- 3D2
- Easy tà learn2
- Easy API1
Pros of Google Maps
- Free253
- Address input through maps api136
- Sharable Directions81
- Google Earth47
- Unique45
- Custom maps designing3
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Cons of ArcGIS
Cons of Google Maps
- Google Attributions and logo4
- Only map allowed alongside google place autocomplete1
