The Benefits of Google's Mapping Tools

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250+ countries and territories

1B+ monthly active users

50M updates daily

200M+ businesses and places

Go beyond the map with rich data and imagery

Completely immerse your audience

Delight your customers with cinematic, 3D visualizations and dynamic, photorealistic images.

Dynamic Maps

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

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Street View

Embed real-world static or dynamic imagery with 360° panoramas.

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Photorealistic 3D Tiles

Access a 3D mesh model of the real world from the same 3D map source as Google Earth.

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Overhead view of custom Elton John marker in Dodger stadium

Advanced markers

Easily create highly customized, faster performance markers.

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A 3D, aerial image of a landmark in Tokyo

Map Tiles

Easily build and customize immersive maps at scale with 2D, 3D, and Street View Tiles.

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Aerial View

Create drone-like, photorealistic 3D aerial videos of points of interest.

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Build a more sustainable future

Create new tools driven by data and insights about air quality, pollen, and solar power.

Air Quality

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

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Solar

Install solar panels faster with advanced rooftop data and imagery.

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Pollen

Improve daily life for allergy sufferers with up-to-date information.

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Photorealistic 3D Tiles

Use Map Tiles for demonstrations, like this CARTO demo showing the benefits of urban vegetation.

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Solar

Design solar panel arrays faster with suggested placements that cover the sunniest parts of the roof first.

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Air Quality

Help people choose routes for hiking, cycling, or driving that avoid upcoming pollution.

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Customize every corner of your map

Build highly-customized maps that turn data into visuals your customers will love and understand.

Cloud-based map styled to show points in a city

Dynamic Maps

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

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Data-driven styling

Display and style Google’s polygons for administrative boundaries.

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Data-driven styling

Create custom choropleth maps with the same polygons as Google Maps.

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Advanced markers

Easily create highly customized, faster performance markers.

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Place Details

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

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Custom map of Los Angeles with custom Elton John markers

Dynamic Maps

Elton John’s team used Dynamic Maps and advanced markers to highlight important Los Angeles locations from Elton’s career.

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Optimize the way from A to Z

Count on rich, detailed maps to help people navigate.

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Map with a route showing traffic conditions

Eco-friendlier routing Two-wheel routing Real-time traffic Avoid tolls & highways

Help people get the right place and address details

Make it easy for people to find accurate location information like addresses, business details, and images.

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Address entry correction, map with restaurants, Place Details for a sushi restaurant, and a woman entering an address on a tablet.

Why build with Google?

Serve users around the world

Reach your customers wherever they are with fast and accurate global coverage.

Get fast and scalable performance

Scale quickly and confidently, backed by the breadth and security of Google infrastructure.

Engage with a familiar interface

Deliver an experience your customers already know and trust, from desktops to mobile devices.

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Location data helps our customers decide what’s more convenient for them: they can see where our products are and choose how, when, and where to buy them. Thanks to the visibility provided by Google Maps Platform, we can better suit our customers’ needs.

Luuk Roestenberg

Manager Digital, Maxeda DIY Group

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Having a partner like Google gives us greater insights into how to build a customer-first product. Whether it's in ensuring that we can reduce delivery turnaround times at scale or create an engine that provides seamless allocation, there is so much more to be done.

Director of Product Management, User Products & Growth, Dunzo

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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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We needed the best mapping partner for our global expansion, and that meant Google Maps Platform. There's simply no better choice. We needed easy integration of quality maps, accurate route calculation, journey time estimates, assistance with addresses, everything. Nothing compares to Google Maps Platform.

Egor Fedorov

COO, inDriver

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A map on a phone showing cars near a passenger's location

We looked at several open location services and nothing came close to the scale and reliability of the information offered by Google Maps Platform.

Aviv Gadot

VP of Engineering, Current

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Google Maps Platform?

Google Maps Platform is a set of mapping solution APIs and SDKs that allows developers to embed Google Maps into mobile tools, apps, and web pages, or to retrieve data from Google Maps. Depending on your needs, you may find yourself using one or a combination of these APIs and SDKs.

How much does Google Maps Platform cost?

For an overview of pricing for the Google Maps Platform mapping products, please see the Pricing Sheet. To learn more about how Google Maps Platform APIs are billed, please see Understanding billing for Maps, Routes, Places, and Environment.

How do I get a Google Maps API key?

See the Overview, Developer, and Get Started guides for the specific mapping tool API or SDK you are interested in. For example, check out the guides for Maps SDK for Android or Maps JavaScript API.

Where can I get Google Maps Platform support?

See Google Maps Platform Support and Resources for information about available support options. The support team is available 24x5 (weekdays from Monday 9 a.m. Tokyo time to Friday 5 p.m. Pacific time) excluding regional holidays for "service unusable" issues.

What countries does Google Maps Platform cover?

The Google Maps team is constantly pushing new map data and mapping tools out and increasing our international coverage. Consult the Google Maps coverage data for the latest coverage information. You can filter the data with the filter box at the top of the page. Please note that coverage data can change if licensing agreements with the data providers change.

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