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Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by rmc »

jaakl wrote: post #239
mtmail wrote: post #84

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Mapbox no longer guarantees a time ( https://twitter.com/Anonymaps/status/913812009547902978 ) Worst I've read about is 3 months. That surprising because openstreetmap.org's tile servers aim for sub-10 minute updates and often I see my changes even faster. https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=61040

OSM sub-10 minute updates really depends on zoom level and data. With low zooms the update can take weeks even there, as I recently learned in a hard way. It is more important to have consistent and laundered map data than someone's last minute changes.

If you need this sort of update frequency, you can host it yourself and rerender whenever you want.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by kirchhoff »

kinard wrote: post #12

WOW, my costs are going to go from about $320 per month to $3,750 per month. Time to find a different solution! GULP!

I'm putting together statements from those affected by the huge price increase to send to the Google Maps product team as a joint message. If you'd like to add yours, please email me at nick@instantstreetview.com

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by Foremost »

jstandard wrote: post #91
reustle wrote: post #33

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Agreed. I contribute to Google maps a lot and I've looked into contributing to open street maps but the options seemed pretty clunky. I recommend mapbox to all of my clients over Google maps.

I've been looking into Mapbox lately. What types of things do you find they're strong vs. weak at?

Definitely strong with map visualization. They're based on OSM map data, so weaker on anything that as to do with geocoding and routing (business data, speed data, traffic data). For good routing and search, you need to look at professional platforms from TomTom Maps, HERE, ESRI or similar.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by Foremost »

yurishimo wrote: post #233
cup-of-tea wrote: post #193

What they don't tell you is the underlying data is of extremely dubious quality. It's a hodgepodge of proprietary data, data automatically generated from satellite imagery and open government data from various sources all merged together in an automatic or at least thoroughly non-expert way. To a cartography geek it's an absolute nightmare.

I think a lot of people are using the stylized Map views over the satellite views. I’m my experience, those are pretty good for showing where things are, maybe if not topographically accurate.

You've got a point. If it's just about showing things on a map, OSM will do. When it comes to routing or geocoding, you need quality, consistency and accuracy. And that is only offered by map makers like Here or TomTom. Both run their own Maps API platforms.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by Foremost »

zenovision wrote: post #188

I just compared pricing for different providers and here are my results: Usage: 10000 requests / day Google Maps: (3600000 - (28000free * 12)) / 1000 * 7 = 22848 $ per year Yandex Maps: 360000 rubles or 5600$ per year, but much cheaper for higher volumes than 10000/day Mapbox: (3600000 - (50000free * 12)) / 1000 * 0.5 + (fix 500 * 12) = 7500 $ per year Bing Maps: No pricing on website, need to contact support

Have you checked out TomTom and Here too?

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by Foremost »

plumeria wrote: post #44

One thing I like about AWS is that all services have a pricing section. I am interested in the routing service ( https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/routes/ ) but there is only a contact sales button, no public pricing info available.

You can also check out this routing service https://developer.tomtom.com/online-routing

It's affordable and uses live and predictive traffic

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by fictionpad »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #71

Mapbox has an excellent alternative map platform based largely but not entirely on OpenStreetMap data. Mapbox GL JS in particular is a joy to work with and extend. https://www.mapbox.com/ It's not free, but it's very easy to use and the pricing is roughly 1/10th of Google's when you get past the free tier: https://www.mapbox.com/pricing/ Mapzen used to be an alternative but sadly they shut down. However many of their…

Mapbox is not cheap either. I use geocode.xyz to batch geocode data for Singapore and it works great (there is a free batch geocoding api) It even correctly geocodes some addresses I could not find on Google Maps. And you can get unlimited access for $100 per month.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by EQmapbox »

Foremost wrote: post #243
jstandard wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been looking into Mapbox lately. What types of things do you find they're strong vs. weak at?

Definitely strong with map visualization. They're based on OSM map data, so weaker on anything that as to do with geocoding and routing (business data, speed data, traffic data). For good routing and search, you need to look at professional platforms from TomTom Maps, HERE, ESRI or similar.

I'm a Mapbox employee so take my note with the typical grain of salt - live & historic traffic is available via maps and APIs in these geographies, https://www.mapbox.com/api-documentation/pages/traffic-count... and you can add turn by turn navigation into your own applications with the SDKs, https://www.mapbox.com/navigation-sdk/. Let me know if we should dive deeper ;)

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by EQmapbox »

jakecopp wrote: post #111
2dvisio wrote: post #109

Wow. I teach a course of mobile programming with Android. Now I will have to remove the section explaining Google maps API as I cannot ask my students to add their Credit card info online just for the course... Any other free alternative?

Yep! There are a bunch of Libraries that integrate with OpenStreetMap, see the "Libraries for Developers" section: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android Mapbox also has Android implementations, not sure if you can sign up without a credit card though.

Definitely! CC not required for Mapbox account.

Note - I work at Mapbox, on accounts

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