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Stadia Maps vs Pathfinder: 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; Pathfinder: Routing as a service. Pathfinder is a new real-time routing service in public beta. Pathfinder calculates routes for transportation services. These routes are updated in real time as users make transportation or delivery requests. Through our SDKs, applications can subscribe to routes as they change in response to user requests.
Stadia Maps and Pathfinder 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, Pathfinder provides the following key features:
- Real-time updates
- Cluster separation
- Route configuration
Pros of Pathfinder
Pros of Stadia Maps
- Real human support1
- Customizable map styles1
- Affordable1
- OpenStreetMap1