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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."
OpenStreetMapI 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 MapsGoogle 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!
OpenStreetMapI use OpenStreetMap because i have the control of the environment, using Docker containers or bare-metal servers.
Google MapsI 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 Earth46
- Unique45
- Custom maps designing3
Pros of Mapbox
- Best mapping service outside of Google Maps26
- OpenStreetMap21
- Beautifully vectorable15
- Fluid user experience11
- React/ RNative integration7
- Extensible7
- 3D Layers5
- Low Level API4
- Great customer support3
- Affordable3
- Custom themes3
- High data volume rendering2
Pros of OpenStreetMap
- Simple19
- Free15
- Open-Source8
- Open-Data6
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Cons of Google Maps
- Google Attributions and logo3
- Only map allowed alongside google place autocomplete1
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