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joshe on June 30, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

Apple's web javascript mapping free tier is huge (just announced at WWDC).

  Apple
  250K map views / *day*

  Mapbox
  50K map views / month

  Google ($200 credit buys you)
  28k map views dynamic on web / month

267 times more free tier than Google, and 150 times more than Mapbox.

Can't find pricing after the free tier, maybe they'll announce it after the beta is over.

Once out of beta this would be a good choice if you have a lot of map views.

askvictor on June 30, 2018 | [–]

Google's used to be a lot more generous. Apple's will be less generous when/if more people start using it.

ksec on June 30, 2018 | [–]

Can I use this outside of Apple Ecosystem? On Android or Windows? Of are the Map Views strictly Apple devices only?

Aaronn on June 30, 2018 | [–]

Sure, you can use it anywhere. It is just a JavaScript API.

https://vasile.github.io/mapkit-js-demo/map.html

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkitjs

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