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OpenStreetMap vs HERE Fleet Telematics: What are the differences?
OpenStreetMap: The free editable map of the whole world. 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; HERE Fleet Telematics: Advanced location algorithms for complex industry use cases. It is a REST API that allows customers to access a diverse and rich set of location features designed to support some of the most complex use cases related to routing, search and map data retrieval.
OpenStreetMap and HERE Fleet Telematics belong to "Mapping APIs" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by OpenStreetMap are:
- Local Knowledge
- Community Driven
- Open Data
On the other hand, HERE Fleet Telematics provides the following key features:
- Work with custom locations
- Leverage geofences
- Advanced datasets
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."
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.
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 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.