New Google My Maps

The hereafter of online mapping - colored markers

It has been an exciting brace of years for online map developers, what amongst the incredible evolution of Leaflet.js, the emergence of non bad narative mapping platforms, such equally Esri Story Maps together with the recent free of Mapbox GL together with Mapbox Studio.

The emergence of then many non bad mapping platforms has challenged Google's 1 time around monopolistic position inwards online map development. In fact these days it is becoming increasingly rare to truly run into a non bad online map which was developed amongst the Google Maps API. Nearly all the great, cutting border maps that I run into these days are developed on other platforms.

I've truly been waiting 2 years to run into how Google would respond to this dwindling marketplace position inwards map development. The response has in conclusion arrived:

Google has renamed Google Maps Engine Lite - My Maps!

All joking aside, this is likely a sensible movement past times Google. Google seem to convey made the determination to allow the Google Maps JavaScript API tardily choke from neglect. Their energies convey instead gone into developing mapping for mobile platforms together with trying to monetize Google Maps through Google Maps Engine.

Google Maps Engine Lite was apparently meant to live on a complimentary entry grade mapping platform that mightiness claw to a greater extent than or less users into upgrading to Google Maps Engine. The work is Google Maps Engine Lite is real basic together with creates fairly ugly maps. I'm certain a lot of potential customers for Google Maps Engine (which is itself a real skillful together with powerful mapping platform)  looked at Google Maps Engine Lite together with idea 'Why would I pay for this?'

It thence makes feel for Google to disassociate Google Maps Engine Lite from Google Maps Engine together with rebrand it equally My Maps. My Maps is an effective entry level, tool for non-developers to chop-chop create unproblematic maps. It truly isn't a stepping-stone to Google Maps Engine.

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