Migrating from Google Maps

Migrating from Google Maps to the Radar Maps Platform is simple, and usually involves just a few lines of code. Find the Google Maps offerings used in your application below and learn about the corresponding cost-effective, developer-friendly Radar alternative.

Maps

Google’s maps offering is used for rendering maps in applications. Radar provides vector base maps with beautiful out-of-the-box styles as an alternative. Check out the maps explorer in the dashboard to see them in action.

Google Maps Feature	Radar Feature
Dynamic Maps	Dynamic Maps
Static Maps	Static Maps

Places

Google’s Places APIs enable finding and geocoding locations such as addresses and points of interest. Radar’s Geocoding and Search APIs provide fully featured geocoding, autocomplete, address validation, and geolocation APIs as an alternative.

Google Maps API	Radar API
Geocoding API	Forward Geocoding API
Reverse Geocoding API	Reverse Geocoding API
N/A	IP Geocoding API
Autocomplete API	Autocomplete API
Place Autocomplete UI	Autocomplete Component
Address Validation API	Address Validation API
Nearby Search API	Places Search API

Routes

Google’s Routes APIs are used to calculate routes between locations or snap to roads. Radar’s routing APIs provide a suite of distance, matrix, directions, route match, and optimize APIs to power these use cases and more.

Google Maps API	Radar API
Distance Matrix API	Distance Matrix API
Directions API	Directions API
Snap to Roads API	Route Matching API
Speed Limits API	Route Matching API, with speedLimit included in the roadAttributes parameter
Compute Routes API	Matrix API, Directions API, or Route Optimization API

Support

Have questions or feedback on migrating from Google Maps to Radar? Let us know! Contact us at radar.com/support.