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Published: 2020-03-20T21:42:28+00:00

What technologies do Uber, Yelp, and Pokémon Go have in common?

Suppose you wanted to make your own version of Google Maps. You’d have to track every road, building, city, and shoreline on the planet. You might even need a fleet of cars to drive around the world and take pictures and measurements, as Google has done for Google Maps.57 And you’d also need to build in panning, zooming, and algorithms to find driving directions between two points.

That is, to put it mildly, very difficult. Even Apple Maps has been criticized for not reaching Google Maps’ standard of quality.58

So when apps like Uber, Pokémon Go, and Yelp need to include a map to show where available cars are, help players, find wild Pokémon, or display nearby restaurants, they probably do not want to spend billions of dollars and thousands of hours building their own maps.

If you’ve ever used these apps, you can probably figure out what they do instead: they embed a Google Map in their app. Searching up restaurants? Yelp drops pins on a Google Map centered on your location. Want to Uber downtown? The app draws the route you’ll take on a Google Map and calculates the approximate time it’ll take to get there.59

Google lets you include a small snippet of code in your app to draw a Google Map. It also provides other snippets of code to let you draw on the maps, calculate driving directions between points on the map, and even find out the speed limit for a particular road. All these tools are cheap or even free.60 These tools are big win for developers; they can use the technology that has taken Google years to perfect with just a small amount of code. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel!

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