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  5. Avocado vs Google Maps

Avocado vs Google Maps

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Overview

Avocado
Avocado
Stacks27
Followers18
Votes0
Google Maps
Google Maps
Stacks42.5K
Followers29.8K
Votes568

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Detailed Comparison

Avocado
Avocado
Google Maps
Google Maps

Avocado is an open source interaction design toolbox built by​ IDEO.​ It ​enables designers to make quick interactive prototypes without writing a line of code.​ ​Built on top of Facebook's Origami framework, Avocado provides ready-to-use patches that can be easily combined to create fully-customized prototypes.​ Official announcement: http://labs.ideo.com/2014/05/27/avocado/

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.

Carousel, creates a swipeable carousel of images.;Bistable, makes an element snap to two positions.;Master Detail, creates a Master-Detail relationship between two views;Flip, creates a card that can be flipped back and forth;Hit Grid, creates a grid of Hit Areas. To retrieve which element has been clicked use Hit Grid Info;iOS Keyboard, provides an interactive keyboard. To retrieve the text being typed use iOS Keyboard Info
Maps Image APIs;Places API;Web Services;Google Earth API;Maps API Licensing;Google Maps API for Work
Statistics
Stacks
27
Stacks
42.5K
Followers
18
Followers
29.8K
Votes
0
Votes
568
Pros & Cons
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Pros
  • 253
    Free
  • 136
    Address input through maps api
  • 82
    Sharable Directions
  • 47
    Google Earth
  • 46
    Unique
Cons
  • 5
    Google Attributions and logo
  • 2
    Only map allowed alongside google place autocomplete

What are some alternatives to Avocado, Google Maps?

Mapbox

Mapbox

We make it possible to pin travel spots on Pinterest, find restaurants on Foursquare, and visualize data on GitHub.

Leaflet

Leaflet

Leaflet 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap

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.

OpenLayers

OpenLayers

An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.

Framer

Framer

Framer is a JavaScript framework that makes creating realistic prototypes a breeze – complete with filters, spring physics and full 3D effects. Framer Generator is a desktop app that imports the resources and folder hierarchy from Photoshop files (Sketch coming soon). Import your design and immediately start to add interaction and animation.

ArcGIS

ArcGIS

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.

ProtoPie

ProtoPie

It is the easiest tool used to turn your UI/UX design ideas into highly interactive prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, all the way to IoT. ProtoPie runs on macOS & Windows and the player app is on iOS and Android.

Origami

Origami

Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming.

Supernova

Supernova

Supernova converts any mobile design to full-fledged native applications, giving the developers extra time to do actual coding. No need to export resources, write navigation, connect it to components created by hand, read styles, apply styles, copy-paste information..

Lottie

Lottie

Lottie is a mobile library for Android and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile!

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