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Elevate everything you build
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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.
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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.
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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Advanced markers
Easily create highly customized, faster performance markers.
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Map Tiles
Easily build and customize immersive maps at scale with 2D, 3D, and Street View Tiles.
Aerial View
Create drone-like, photorealistic 3D aerial videos of points of interest.
Build a more sustainable future
Create new tools driven by data and insights about air quality, pollen, and solar power.
Air Quality heat map
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.
Pollen exposure heat map
Pollen
Improve daily life for allergy sufferers with up-to-date information.
Photorealistic 3D Tiles
Use Map Tiles for demonstrations, like this CARTO demo showing the benefits of urban vegetation.
Solar
Design solar panel arrays faster with suggested placements that cover the sunniest parts of the roof first.
Air quality exposure map comparing two different routes
Air Quality
Help people choose routes for hiking, cycling, or driving that avoid upcoming pollution.
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.
Choropleth map of Brooklyn
Data-driven styling
Display and style Google’s polygons for administrative boundaries.
Choropleth map of the UK
Data-driven styling
Create custom choropleth maps with the same polygons as Google Maps.
Hotel prices displayed on a map
Advanced markers
Easily create highly customized, faster performance markers.
Place details image of a pizzeria over a map
Place Details
Add rich details for millions of places to your website or app.
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.
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.
Address entry correction, map with restaurants, Place Details for a sushi restaurant, and a woman entering an address on a tablet. 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.
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Photo of the earth at night over the US
Get fast and scalable performance
Scale quickly and confidently, backed by the breadth and security of Google infrastructure.
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A lit-up server room
Engage with a familiar interface
Deliver an experience your customers already know and trust, from desktops to mobile devices.
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Hand holding a mobile phone with Google Maps displayed on it
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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