Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle, air and public transportation.

Visualize the world with rich, accurate maps

Help a new couple find the perfect home in your real estate app. Or give a traveler a detailed view of an unfamiliar train station. Maps helps you give users the context they need with static or interactive maps embedded into your site or app. Street View and high resolution satellite imagery allow you to create more engaging experiences with additional detail. With over 25 million updates from over 1,000 sources every day, our maps have the up-to-date information your users need, right when they need it.

Customize your maps

Style your maps with custom markers, lines, colors, polygons, and images. Give users the ability to create and share their own custom maps and use zoom, pinch, rotate, and tilt to explore maps in more detail. You can highlight your store locations with custom colors and elements. Or customize a virtual cycling path powered by Street View with unique markers, overlays, and photos.

Rely on Google scale as you grow
When you build on the same infrastructure that serves billions of Google Maps’ users, you can count on a platform that will scale and flex as you do. On our secure, future-proof infrastructure, you can grow from prototype to planet-scale without having to think about capacity, reliability, or performance.
Build maps experiences throughout the world
Give your users the same high-quality Google Maps experiences they know and love in over 200 countries and territories. Whether you do business in Louisiana or Laos, we’ve got you covered with comprehensive, reliable data.
Provide reliable directions anywhere in the world
Help your users plan jogging routes in London. Or find hotels near their next stop in Jakarta. Routes has comprehensive, up-to-date transit, biking, driving, and walking directions covering 40 million miles of roads in over 200 countries and territories. Wherever you do business, you can count on comprehensive, reliable routes.
Create efficient routes to lower costs and improve customer experiences
Plan trips with up-to-date data on distances between points, suggested routes, and estimated travel times. With the ability to create efficient routes for up to 25 waypoints, you can streamline delivery systems, create sightseeing itineraries for travelers, or guide rental car customers from your office to their hotels.
Keep your workforce moving, even during rush hour
Choose faster routes or reallocate deliveries to workers based on real-time traffic conditions. Use predictive traffic models to plan ahead, keeping your workers out of slowdowns and decreasing late deliveries.
Help your users explore the world around them
Give your users the information they need to plan a trip to Tokyo or choose a ramen restaurant in their neighborhood. With Places, you can provide users data on location names, addresses, ratings, reviews, contact information, and atmosphere. Local guides and users submit tens of millions of updates every day, so you can count on accurate, reliable information.
Provide better services with precise location intelligence
Avoid missed pickups by sending your drivers to precise addresses based on users’ reported location. Make it easier for users to enter correct billing and shipping information by automatically suggesting addresses as they type. When you use our powerful geolocation and geocoding features in combination with up-to-date Places data, you can get your users the information they need, right when they need it.
Build with comprehensive location data all over the globe
Use details on over 200 million places and points of interest to help users find you, attract customers with reviews, and even help detect fraud. Whether you do business in Barcelona or Baltimore, you can count on the same high-quality Google Maps experiences your users know and love.