The futurity of online mapping - colored markers
It has been an exciting couplet of years for online map developers, what alongside the incredible evolution of Leaflet.js, the emergence of swell narative mapping platforms, such every bit Esri Story Maps as well as the recent unloosen of Mapbox GL as well as Mapbox Studio.
The emergence of as well as then many swell mapping platforms has challenged Google's 1 time close monopolistic position inward online map development. In fact these days it is becoming increasingly rare to genuinely come across a swell online map which was developed alongside the Google Maps API. Nearly all the great, cutting border maps that I come across these days are developed on other platforms.
I've genuinely been waiting 2 years to come across how Google would respond to this dwindling marketplace position inward map development. The response has lastly arrived:
Google has renamed Google Maps Engine Lite - My Maps!
All joking aside, this is likely a sensible motion past times Google. Google seem to bring made the conclusion to allow the Google Maps JavaScript API piece of cake popular off from neglect. Their energies bring instead gone into developing mapping for mobile platforms as well as trying to monetize Google Maps through Google Maps Engine.
Google Maps Engine Lite was evidently meant to live a gratuitous entry degree mapping platform that mightiness claw about users into upgrading to Google Maps Engine. The employment is Google Maps Engine Lite is really basic as well as creates fairly ugly maps. I'm certain a lot of potential customers for Google Maps Engine (which is itself a really proficient as well as powerful mapping platform) looked at Google Maps Engine Lite as well as idea 'Why would I pay for this?'
It thence makes feel for Google to disassociate Google Maps Engine Lite from Google Maps Engine as well as rebrand it every bit My Maps. My Maps is an effective entry level, tool for non-developers to speedily create elementary maps. It genuinely isn't a stepping-stone to Google Maps Engine.
