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HereMaps vs OpenLayers: What are the differences?
HereMaps: The leading location cloud. The Open Location Platform company, enables people, businesses and cities to harness the power of location; OpenLayers: A high-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs. An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.
HereMaps and OpenLayers can be categorized as "Mapping APIs" tools.
Some of the features offered by HereMaps are:
- Advertising Data Services
- Tracking & Positioning
- HERE HD Live Map
On the other hand, OpenLayers provides the following key features:
- Tiled Layers - Pull tiles from OSM, Bing, MapBox, Stamen, MapQuest, and any other XYZ source you can find. OGC mapping services and untiled layers also supported.
- Fast & Mobile Ready - Mobile support out of the box. Build lightweight custom profiles with just the components you need.
- Vector Layers - Render vector data from GeoJSON, TopoJSON, KML, GML, and a growing number of other formats.
OpenLayers is an open source tool with 5.31K GitHub stars and 1.99K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenLayers's open source repository on GitHub.
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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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What is Here Maps?
The Open Location Platform company, enables people, businesses and cities to harness the power of location
What is OpenLayers?
An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.
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