Maps Solutions: Provide Local Information

Use summaries that highlight the most insightful information about restaurants and other places, such as popular dishes, flavors, value, and service quality.

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A restaurant with an AI-generated description

Help customers discover what's nearby and decide where to stay or live

Add Google local information to your maps to help customers make more confident decisions about where to live or stay. And show properties that are close to key locations like work or public transit.

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Highlight property info with map-based search

Create a map-based search tool that visualizes data on all your properties, to help customers discover new properties and make decisions easier.

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A listing for a home on the Homesearch app

Easily create custom interactive markers

Change the color, background, icon, and outline of the Google Maps red pin, and create custom markers with SVGs, PNGs or HTML elements. Do it all directly in your code, with no image needed.

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Map using advanced markers to show hotel costs in a city

Helpful features

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 your data for you.

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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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Industry-optimized map styles

Customize pre-configured, optimized maps for the travel, real estate, retail, and logistics industries.

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Products built for local information

3D Maps

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

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Android iOS JS

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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

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

Place Details

Essentials Pro Enterprise

Add rich details for millions of places to your website or app.

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Android iOS API

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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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Learn how Rome2rio provides local information to travelers

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We have around 24 billion items of information on more than 28 million properties. With Google Maps Platform, we can let customers display that data in a clear, easily understood geographical context. It’s so quick and simple to use that customers can search in a much freer way than before.

Giles Ellwood CEO and Founder, Homesearch

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*Free usage refers to monthly calls available at no cost. Essentials Map Tiles APIs provide up to 100,000 calls at no cost per SKU per month.