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- Crisp UI1
- Great customer service1
- Comprehensive platform1
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- Free253
- Address input through maps api136
- Sharable Directions82
- Google Earth47
- Unique46
- Custom maps designing3
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- Flexibility15
- Maturity11
- Open Source8
- Incredibly comprehensive, excellent support7
- Extensible4
- Strong community4
- Choice of map providers4
- Low Level API3
- OpenStreetMap1
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- Google Attributions and logo5
- Only map allowed alongside google place autocomplete2
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What is CARTO?
The CARTO platform empowers everyone, from business analysts to data scientists, to turn location data into business outcomes. We accelerate innovation, power new use cases and disrupt business models through Location Intelligence.
What is Google Maps?
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.
What is OpenLayers?
An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.
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Mapbox
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ArcGIS
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Tableau
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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.
Postman
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