Google Maps Platform

Localyse is the Google Premier Partner and reseller of the Google Maps Platform in the Benelux. Google Maps Platform consists of building blocks (Products/APIs), which have endless possibilities to be combined and to be used in your own solution. You can also use them for your public website , for example as a store locator. Combining these building blocks gives you endless possibilities to distinguish yourself from others.

Because Localyse is a Premier Partner of Google, we are standing on the forefront of new technologies, products and innovations. Our goal is to always remain in direct contact with our clients, so we can help you to correctly implement the Google Maps Platform and to make full use of all the benefits. We will assist you in your native language, and you will be provided with your personal assigned contact-person.

Localyse your personal assistance with Google Maps Platform

What’s in the Google Maps Platform?

Maps

Routes

Places

Maps

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.

Features

Maps: Display maps as images or interactive maps. Style them with custom markers, lines, colors, polygons, and images to align with your brand.
Street View: Embed Street View imagery and high resolution satellite imagery.

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Routes

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.

Features

Directions: Get directions for transit, biking, driving, and walking. Calculate current or future travel times based on real-time traffic.
Distance Matrix: Deliver travel times and distances for one or more locations.
Roads: Create precise itineraries by determining the route a vehicle has travelled and the nearest roads along each point of the vehicle’s journey.

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Places

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.

Features

Place Details: Provide names, addresses, and other rich details like ratings, reviews, or contact information for over 100 million places.
Current Place: Identify a place based on real-time signals like time of day or user location.
Find Place: Turn a phone number, address, or name into a place.
Autocomplete: Automatically return location suggestions while users type.
Geocoding: Convert addresses to geographic coordinates, or the reverse.
Geolocation: Return the precise location of a device based on Wi-Fi or cell towers.
Time Zone: Return a time zone for any location.

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Combining is the key to succes!

Our +300 customers has the experience

Learn how our customers combined different products of the Google Maps Platform to use in their solution. Creating creative combinations makes a solution very rich and unique.

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