Talk:Comparison of web map services

This article is rated List-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Maps Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Maps, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Maps and Cartography on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MapsWikipedia:WikiProject MapsTemplate:WikiProject MapsMaps articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article had an importance automatically assigned to it. Once it has been checked by a human, please remove `\|autoi=yes`.

Websites: Computing Low‑importance

	This article is part of WikiProject Websites, an attempt to create and link together articles about the major websites on the web. To participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page.WebsitesWikipedia:WikiProject WebsitesTemplate:WikiProject WebsitesWebsites articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Computing.

Lists Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lists, an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.ListsWikipedia:WikiProject ListsTemplate:WikiProject ListsList articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Image copyright problem with Image:Virtual Earth 3D.png

The image Image:Virtual Earth 3D.png is used in this article under a claim of fair use, but it does not have an adequate explanation for why it meets the requirements for such images when used here. In particular, for each page the image is used on, it must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Please check

That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for the use in this article.
That this article is linked to from the image description page.

This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. --06:14, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why no Openstreetmap ?

I would have expected this-Openstreetmap - to be included, no ? Sean Heron (talk) 12:00, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see it now. Jidanni (talk) 15:50, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

remove mapquest

there is no information of mapquest included in this article, so not really helpfull and btw. the table is not really read-friendly —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.78.34.56 (talk) 23:03, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yandex maps

What do you think about adding information about Yandex maps? They are rather popular in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan. If it is interesting for many people I can post information on this matter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artem.kolotilkin (talk • contribs) 07:29, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spatial Reference

Adding the Map projection of each service to the table would be a nice to have. Great overview!

Order of companies

It's not clear to me why the services are ordered in the comparison table the way they are. It's not alphabetical and it's not by popularity. Could someone reorder them?

Hitwise^[1] ranks them thus: Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps.

References

^ http://www.hitwise.com/index.php/download_file/-/view/1154/

File:Ovi maps.png Nominated for speedy Deletion

An image used in this article, File:Ovi maps.png, has been nominated for speedy deletion at Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Copyright violations

What should I do?

Speedy deletions at commons tend to take longer than they do on Wikipedia, so there is no rush to respond. If you feel the deletion can be contested then please do so (commons:COM:SPEEDY has further information). Otherwise consider finding a replacement image before deletion occurs.

This notification is provided by a Bot, currently under trial --CommonsNotificationBot (talk) 11:33, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Offline capability ?

Wouldn't it make sense to add offline capability/feature to the comparison tables? Misuo (talk) 11:25, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Age of Satellite Imagery

Google - Current wiki version claims "1–3 years old". In my area, EGNL, it's over 10 year old, and elsewhere, much older. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.158.82.189 (talk) 22:42, 18 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Number of "Edit Points" Available in Editing Routing

Would be nice if this comparison included how many times you can edit a route when getting directions, either through adding destinations or "dragging" the route line as can be done on most of these services.

So...number of destinations per route and number of edit points on a route would be welcome. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.3.8.253 (talk) 16:09, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of Apple Maps

Should Apple Maps be in the table? It doesn't actually have a web interface – only custom applications to access the map from, so it's not really that much of a web map service. Jc86035 (talk • contributions) 11:32, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Apple MapKitJS is now available for websites https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkitjs rverrips 07:55, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yahoo Maps discontinued

Yahoo was shutting down its Maps site by the end of June 2015^[1]. So Yahoo Maps should be no longer in the table. I have removed the service from the comparison. 87.153.217.166 (talk • contributions) 09:05, 13 August 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:5F:2D04:D33:A479:C23B:84F1:D7FF (talk) [reply]

References

^ http://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-to-shut-down-its-maps-site/

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Comparison of web map services. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20050411000000/http://www. to http://www.

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 04:38, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Available in China

Many of these map services do not work when viewed on websites in China. Would be nice to know which ones. 08:55, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on Comparison of web map services. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130804203529/http://kb.applingua.com/2011/07/supported-ios-languages-which-languages/ to http://kb.applingua.com/2011/07/supported-ios-languages-which-languages/
Added archive https://archive.is/20120524090754/http://maps.cloudmade.com/ to http://maps.cloudmade.com/
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.xn--pnvkarte-m4a.de/
Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20121125072650/http://m.here.net/ to http://m.here.net/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 18:03, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified (January 2018)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Comparison of web map services. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 08:35, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Adding Waze

I suggest adding waze to the list as they also have a map of the world, independent of the other services. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SirKitKat (talk • contribs) 12:43, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bicycle Routing in Mapquest ?

The table states that Mapquest offers Bicycle Routing. I cannot find any trace of that feature on the Mapquest web site. Can someone more knowledgable look into this, please. Voschix (talk) 17:02, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mapy.cz is an OSM renderer

Proof:

per OSM wiki
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Mapycz
- direct changes to the OSM database by Petr Fukátko

Because of this it is misleading to grant mapy.cz its own column and I would suggest to remove the entry.-- Pension Pennerglück (talk) 13:39, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. Mapy.cz needs to be merged with OSM. Venudxb (talk) 06:17, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Map Compare

A "Comparison of web map services" wouldn't be complete without mentioning Map Compare. Jidanni (talk) 15:47, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.hitwise.com/index.php/download_file/-/view/1154/

[2] ttp://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-to-shut-down-its-maps-site/

[1]

[1]