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George Katsanos
George Katsanos

Reputation: 14175

Front-end Performance and mapping services: Google Maps vs competition

With the risk of being flagged "chatty" question, I would like to analyze the technical advantages and disadvantages of using Google Maps vs other services (like for example OpenStreetMaps+Leaflet).

One thing I observed is that Google Maps suffers from performance problems, which increase when there's lots going on in the map (many markers). I also noticed that each service is based on a different front-end technology: svg, canvas, images ..

I am building a project which will make a somewhat heavy use of maps so I would like to have your opinion on which service would be better to go with.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1056

Answers (1)

scai
scai

Reputation: 21469

I don't think there is a good answer to this question. Both mapping services addressed by you can be used by multiple front ends. For example both Leaflet and OpenLayers (and every other library that is able to show tiles) can show both OSM and Google Maps tiles so there is nothing to compare here.

One of the real advantages of OpenStreetMap is that you are not limited to a specific data representation. OSM data is free available and consequently a OSM-based map can use any technology you want. There are already lots of different OSM based services and rendering libraries / client renderers available using very different technologies to show the map.

Upvotes: 2

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