Comparison of Web Map Services - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Feature	Google Maps Google Maps Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free , that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API...	Yahoo Maps	Bing Maps	MapQuest MapQuest MapQuest is an American free online web mapping service owned by AOL. The company was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1969. When it became an independent company in 1994, it was...	OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable GPS devices.The...	Nokia Maps Nokia Maps Nokia Maps is a free mapping product and service by Nokia for its mobile phones and smartphone multimedia devices....
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License	Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	CC-BY-SA	Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...
Availability
Full Extra Functionality	Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK, United States.	United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and most European countries.	United States, Canada (with the exception of the rural northeastern provinces), United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Japan(Yahoo Japan only), India	United States		More than 100 navigable countries
Limited Extra Functionality	Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Moscow only), San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (Istanbul only)	Unknown	Unknown			103 limited navigable countries
Directory Listings	Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Japan, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, the UK, and the United States	Unknown	Australia and United States
Officially Supported Web Browsers	IE7+, Firefox 2.0.0.8+, Safari 3+, Mozilla 1.7+, Opera 8.02+, Google Chrome 1+	Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 6 or 7, Opera 9 or Safari 3	IE6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 3+	IE6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 3+		Internet Explorer 7+, Mozilla Firefox 3.5+, Google Chrome 4+, Safari 4+
Officially Supported Interface Languages						English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
Viewing Interface
Degrees of Motion	Vertical, Horizontal, Depth, Rotation(beta), 360 Panoramic (Street View), 3D Mode (Google Earth JavaScript)	Vertical, Horizontal, Depth	Vertical, Horizontal, Depth, 360 Panoramic (Streetside), 3D Mode(Tilt, Pan, Rotate)			Vertical, Horizontal, Depth (zoom), Tilt (3D), Rotate 360 degrees
Map Zoom	19 (via user-interface), more levels available through parameter	17 (via user-interface)	19 (via user-interface)	16 (via user-interface)		18 (via user-interface)
Mouse Scroll Wheel Map Zoom
Direct Mouse Interface (Draggable etc.)		(Low Bandwidth Version: No)
Dynamic search results based on dragging on the Map
Keyboard Shortcuts						- routing with directions
Map Types	6: Map, Satellite, Hybrid, Street, Traffic, 3D	3: Map, Satellite, Hybrid, Traffic(US)	9: Road, Aerial, Hybrid, Bird's Eye, Traffic, 3D, Street, London Street Map, Ordnance Survey Map	3: Road, Aerial, Traffic		7: Map View, Satellite, Terrain, 3D, Traffic, Public Transportation, Heat Map
3D Mode	(with plugin)		since november 2010 (previously with plugin)		Yes, via http://www.osm-3d.org/
3D Landmarks
Weather
Technologies
Technologies Used	JavaScript, XMLHttpRequest (Ajax), Hidden Iframe, XSLTProcessor, JSON, XML	JavaScript, XMLHttpRequest (Ajax), XML, JSON	JavaScript, Ajax, .NET		JavaScript	JavaScript, XML, Ajax, CSS, JSON, jQuery, Java, C++
Front	DHTML	DHTML	DHTML		DHTML	JavaScript, Ajax, CSS
Backend	JSON	JSON, XML	.NET		XML	Java, JavaScript
Backend Providers	deCarta (formally Telcontar)	Yahoo	Microsoft			Nokia Nokia Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki... /Navteq NAVTEQ Navteq is a Chicago, Illinois-based provider of Geographic Information Systems data and is a dominant company in providing the base electronic navigable maps...
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Age of Map Imagery
Age of Satellite Imagery	1–3 years old	4–5 years old	1–3 years old			1–3 years old
Map Data Providers	MAPIT, TeleAtlas, DigitalGlobe, MDA Federal	NAVTEQ, TeleAtlas, i-cubed, Public domain	NAVTEQ, Intermap, Pictometry International, NASA	Navteq NAVTEQ Navteq is a Chicago, Illinois-based provider of Geographic Information Systems data and is a dominant company in providing the base electronic navigable maps...	User contributions	Navteq NAVTEQ Navteq is a Chicago, Illinois-based provider of Geographic Information Systems data and is a dominant company in providing the base electronic navigable maps...
Directory Data Providers	Google, ThomsonLocal.com	Infoserve - Powered by SmartView	Live Local Listings, Yellow Pages			Navteq NAVTEQ Navteq is a Chicago, Illinois-based provider of Geographic Information Systems data and is a dominant company in providing the base electronic navigable maps...
Searching
Location	Post Code, Street Name, Town, Neighborhood, City, Long/Lat	Post Code, Street Name, Town, City	Post Code, Street Name, Town, City, Zip+4, Long/Lat		Post Code, Street Name, Town, Neighborhood/Suburb, State/Region, City, Country, Zip+4, Long/Lat	Post Code, Street Name, Town, Neighborhood/Suburb, State/Region, City, Country, Long/Lat
Entity	Business, Places of Interest, Airport Code	Business, Places of Interest, Airport Code	Businesses, Collections, Directories, Postal Codes		All Possibility, no restriction	Business, Places of Interest, Landmarks, Airport Codes
User Created
Levels of Filtering	1	Many - SmartView	0
Directions
Directions					Yes via http://maps.cloudmade.com/#
Reverse Directions
Public Transport Integration					Yes, via http://www.öpnvkarte.de/	in more than 420 cities worldwide
Walking Directions	(beta)				Yes via http://maps.cloudmade.com/#
Wheelchair Directions					Yes via http://www.rollstuhlrouting.de/routenplaner.html
Bicycle Directions	(beta)
Multiple Destinations
Send to Device	Email	Email, SMS, Car	Email, SMS, GPS			, via synchronization
Live Traffic Information
Historic Traffic		?	?	?	?
Personalization
Set Home Location		, but remembers last location	, via Microsoft Location Finder ActiveX Control
Save Maps
Printing
Print Option
Scale to Print
Crop to Print
Notes
Retains Overlays?	Matched Searches, Directions	Smartview, Directions	Matches Searches, Directions, Collections			Favourites, Directions
Collaboration / Embedding
Create hyperlink
Send hyperlink to email
Embed HTML Iframe link
Application Integration	Google Earth Google Earth Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency funded company acquired by Google in 2004 . It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite... , BMW Assist	Mercedes-Benz In Car System	Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of... , Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope WorldWide Telescope The WorldWide Telescope is a computer program created by Microsoft that displays the astronomical sky as maps, the 3D Universe, visualised data sets and animations. It was announced at the TED Conference in Monterey, California in February 2008. Users are able to pan around outer space and zoom as... , Microsoft Photosynth
API Available		- Javascript and Flash	- Javascript and Silverlight			- api.maps.ovi.com
Other		Save to del.icio.us	Blog on Windows Live Space
Shareable Maps		Yes ( in in.maps.yahoo.com)
Readily Available Overlays			(Collections)
Advertising
Business Advertising
Mobile
Mobile-Specific Website						- m.maps.nokia.com
Mobile-Specific Application						, Ovi Maps for Nokia mobile phones
Contact Integration
Voice Integration	, via Droid Maps app, upcoming feature for full web mode
GPS Integration
Directions		Send directions via SMS with hyperlink
Turn-by-turn navigation Turn-by-turn navigation Turn-by-turn navigation is a feature of some GPS navigation devices where directions for a selected route are continually presented to the user in the form of spoken and visual instructions. The system keeps the user up-to-date about the best route to the destination, and is often updated according...
Interactive Maps		-
Types of Map	Map, Satellite, Terrain, Street	Map, Satellite, Hybrid	Map, Satellite			Map, Satellite, Terrain, 3D, Night Mode
Cell-based Location		-
Wi-Fi Location

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