Google Maps API vs. Salesforce Maps

If you love travelling [Google Maps API is] a must app for you it will guide you to the places. You can search pub, restaurant and places to stay easily in the locations where you never been before. With the live location sharing you'll never get lost. It is fit for every scenarios it will save your time in finding the exact location.

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Great tool for a large organization. They are now very expensive among other competitors unfortunately but have great customer service and easy setup.

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• Location accuracy application we used to for displaying current location.
• Easiest way to guide the map from one location to another.
• Building the scenerio based application which requires accessibility.

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• Drilling down from the map point, to account/work order/opportunity.

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• It is an easy application and it is difficult to find any problems or observations for it as it is a giant company that is always developing on its own.

• They just restructured their pricing model and we are ending our contract because of it - you have to pay for 10 users.
• The crossover with accounts and contacts are hard to map.
• The window sizes when navigating the maps are difficult to work with.

Incentivized

Google Maps API is easy to use. Map visibility is good and accurate. Easy to search routes, distance, and travel time based on actual address to address locations or when quoting a zip code to zip code rate. The user interface is friendly and make usage easy and quick to obtain all the information I need to properly quote and plan my driver's routes.

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Worked well once you figured it out. The 'help portal' was no 'help'. Once you get done self-teaching yourself enough of the terminology and workings, it is pretty quick and easy to use. But the learning curve, again, is not worth the time or effort

Incentivized

It does everything I need it to do and hasn't let me down yet. It has been a lifesaver for my roofing accounts. Most of my clients for the roofing belong to an Amish community with no computers and so forth. So being able to search the maps and look at the rooftops is imperative for those campaigns.

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Support was comical. It was barely available and the few times I did get help the language barrier was extraordinarily problematic

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Though Mapbox is cheaper than Google Maps API Google map is more accurate, has a good database, and has more maps in it. It has excellent language support and a better view than Mapbox. One can personalize Google Maps more than we can do in Mapbox. Lastly, Google Map API is more reliable than Mapbox.

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Unknown other products out there. Was led to Maps by our SF rep. I made the mistake of trusting a salesperson for solutions. SF reps are pushed to sell the going product, not actually HELP their clients.

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• Positive: Helped me maximize rate accuracy when quoting new lanes
• Negative: Driver will use an alternate route due to my Maps route not being the best truck route
• Positive: Traffic and incident updates on real time lanes to help the drivers plan their route.

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• Increased efficiency
• Reduced labor time
• Improved visibility

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