Alternatives to google maps api [closed]

Answer 1

Another nice one http://www.skyhookwireless.com/localfaves/

Answer 2

Some location-based APIs (not map tiles) - don't know if it would be useful for your project - travel time calculations, public transit data and walkability (Walk Score) for maps.

http://www.walkscore.com/professional/walk-score-apis.php

(Disclaimer: I didn't write them, but I work there as front end dev - so let me know if any documentation is unclear! :D)

Answer 3

What about SimpleGeo?

https://simplegeo.com/developers/

Seems quite promising. It's form the same people that have done:

http://polymaps.org/

I realized that it was only available for javascript sorry. But I found this one instead:

http://code.google.com/p/mapsforge/

Answer 4

TomTom has just released it's Map Toolkit API which includes SDKs for Android, iOS and JavaScript. See http://developer.tomtom.com/.

DISCLAIMER: I work for TomTom and I created the JavaScript SDK.

Answer 5

To get the best possible answer to this question I combine all given answers.

Alternatives to google maps api:

• MapTiler Cloud: https://cloud.maptiler.com/

• Microsoft Maps API: http://www.microsoft.com/maps/developers/web.aspx

• Yahoo Maps API (discontinued as of Sept 13,2011 in favor of Nokia Maps): http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

  (provided by Vic)

• TomTom Map Toolkit API which includes SDKs for Android, iOS and JavaScript http://developer.tomtom.com/

  (provided by SoWeLie)

• CloudMade: http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects

  (provided by Adolfo)

• MapQuest: http://developer.mapquest.com/

  (provided by TuxGeek)

• OpenStreetMap API: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6

• Here.com Maps (Formerly Nokia Maps / Ovi Maps): http://developer.here.com/

• Osmdroid: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmdroid

• OpenStreetMap Android http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android

  (provided by AGrunewald)

• Route-Me: https://github.com/route-me/route-me

  (provided by kiteloop)

• OpenLayers: http://openlayers.org/

  (provided by Arman)

• Trimaps: http://trimaps.com/en/

• MapBox http://mapbox.com/

  (provided by Stot)

• Nutiteq http://www.nutiteq.com/

  (provided by Martijn M)

• GraphHopper Directions and Matrix API https://graphhopper.com/#directions-api

  (provided by karussell)

Answer 6

For your iOS project you could use Route-Me (link). This is an open source framework that pretty much provides the same functionality as MapKit, but allows to integrate different map sources (e.g. Open Street Map, Cloudmade etc.). As far as I know, this is the only alternative you have on iOS.

For Android, there are various alternatives that allow you to use alternate map sources. See this link for a good list of options.