Stadia Maps vs CARTO: What are the differences?

Stadia Maps: Location made human, geographic data for every app. It provides location data services for websites, mobile apps, print, and beyond. It enables fantastic mapping experiences for your application with maps, navigation, and other APIs and tools; CARTO: The CARTO platform empowers business analysts, data scientists and more, to turn location data into business outcomes. 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.

Stadia Maps and CARTO can be categorized as "Mapping APIs" tools.

Some of the features offered by Stadia Maps are:

• Raster map tiles
• Vector map tiles
• Routing

On the other hand, CARTO provides the following key features:

• Drag and drop data import allows you to create visualizations in seconds
• Make sense of your location data and power your business.
• Create beautiful visualizations with our easy to use design and styling tools.

CARTO is an open source tool with 2.33K GitHub stars and 625 GitHub forks. Here's a link to CARTO's open source repository on GitHub.