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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 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 OpenStreetMap because i have the control of the environment, using Docker containers or bare-metal servers.

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.
Pros of Google Maps
- Free250
- Address input through maps api136
- Sharable Directions81
- Google Earth47
- Unique45
- Custom maps designing3
Pros of Leaflet
- Light weight31
- Free24
- Evolutive via plugins12
- OpenStreetMap10
- Strong community9
- Choice of map providers6
- Easy API6
- Alternative to Google Maps3
Pros of OpenStreetMap
- Simple20
- Free16
- Open-Source9
- Open-Data7
- React/ RNative integration1
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Cons of Google Maps
- Google Attributions and logo3
- Only map allowed alongside google place autocomplete1