Stadia Maps vs OpenLayers: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is 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.

Stadia Maps and OpenLayers can be primarily classified as "Mapping APIs" tools.

Some of the features offered by Stadia Maps are:

• Raster map tiles
• Vector map tiles
• Routing

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 6.74K GitHub stars and 2.23K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenLayers's open source repository on GitHub.