Display the Ideal Location & Place Details

Show customers a responsive list of locations, tailored for them, and ranked by distance on a familiar Google map. Plus, you can create custom markers and styled polygons to make your locations stand out.

See how it worked for Domino's

Provide details like hours, reviews, services, and more

Utilize rich Places data to provide information customers need to pick the ideal location, such as reviews, open hours, and photos.

See how it worked for Swisscom

Provide directions to your store or location

Integrate routes, traffic estimates, and directions into your online experience and keep customers on your site or app.

See how it worked for IKEA Germany

Highlight what’s near your business

Help customers see what there is to do in the area around your business – like pharmacies, car charging stations, or coffee shops, through customized points of interest, Advanced Markers and 3D visualizations.

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Helpful features

WebGL Overlay View for Javascript

Render 2D and 3D objects with perspective directly on the basemap.

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Advanced markers

Create highly customized, more performant markers that provide a richer user experience, showcase your brand, and save developer time and resources.

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Data-driven styling

Display and style Google’s polygons using both your own business data and data from Google. Save developer resources by letting Google curate and manage boundary data for you.

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Products built for displaying the ideal location

3D Maps

Create Photorealistic 3D Maps in Maps JavaScript using Google’s rendering technology.

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Android iOS JS

An overhead view of a city building with a map marker above it

Aerial View

Pro

Delight your users with pre-rendered, 3D cinematic video of points of interest and their surroundings.

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API

Custom map of Manhattan with a variety of locations

Dynamic Maps

Essentials

Customize and style interactive maps using Cloud-based maps styling for real time updates across all devices and platforms.

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Android iOS JS

Map Tiles

Essentials Enterprise

Design interfaces and interactions unique to your brand and design requirements, and customize your visualizations.

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API

Photorealistic 3D Tiles

Enterprise

Access a 3D mesh model of the real world and use the renderer of your choice to create cinematic experiences.

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API

Street View Tiles

Essentials

Use images taken from street level and tile metadata to create powerful, immersive experiences.

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API

Autocomplete

Essentials Pro

Help users quickly find the exact place they’re looking for by automatically suggesting businesses and points of interest as they type.

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Android iOS API JS

Geocoding

Essentials

Convert addresses to geographic coordinates or the reverse.

API JS

A city with different WiFi locations highlighted

Geolocation

Essentials

Return the location of a device without relying on GPS, using geospatial data from cell towers and WiFi nodes.

API

Nearby Search

Pro Enterprise

Search for places within a specified area with the option to refine by place type.

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API JS

A mobile phone using the Places Insights app

Places Aggregate

Pro

Get specific insights to improve user experience for users discovering or researching an area.

API

Text Search

Essentials Pro Enterprise

Provide information about a set of places based on a single search query and any specified location.

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API JS

Air Quality

Essentials

Reduce users’ exposure to air pollution with air quality data and insights.

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API

Solar

Essentials Enterprise

Use advanced data and imagery to create more advanced solar array designs and proposals, while eliminating costly site visits.

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API

Pollen

Pro

Improve daily life for allergy sufferers with up-to-date information on different types and levels of pollen.

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API

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We wanted the app to help customers across the world find their most convenient eat-in, takeaway, drive-thru, partner store, or delivery platform, and highlight which services are available...Google Maps Platform has become integral to our digital operations. New features and capabilities of Google Maps Platform products have allowed us to continue innovating.

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