Mapbox

Avantages

MapBox is an exceptional mapping platform that has impressed me with its outstanding features and affordable pricing structure. Compared to its competitors, MapBox stands out with its highly competitive pricing, especially when using the SDKs. As a user of the Flutter SDK, I found the implementation process to be incredibly easy, which is a big advantage for developers.What I love most about MapBox is the user-friendly interface, which is perfect for product managers or anyone who needs to monitor the platform. The dashboard is simple, intuitive, and provides a wealth of data and insights that can be used to optimize mapping projects. With MapBox, I can easily monitor key metrics and make data-driven decisions to improve my project's performance.

Inconvénients

The negative point of Mapbox is that if you have to use the Static Tiles API for example, the costs are quite prohibitive compared to the competitors, so this would be the only point of attention regarding the price.The big problem with Mapbox is the support, even if you are a big customer and you have a big monthly expense the support is very precarious and slow. It literally takes weeks or months to get the first response to your ticket. They don't make it clear that Support is "not included" and that to get faster service you need to purchase an extra support plan.The cheapest support plan costs 50 usd and this only guarantees you that the first response will be within 3 days. If you want some decent level of support you already need to move to a plan that costs 10% of your monthly spending and the minimum is 500 usd.Even so, the SLA is from 1 to 3 days, that is, you could be paying 500 usd to have a response only in 3 days, that doesn't seem reasonable to me.

Avantages

It has a great documentation, easy to set up, a lot of examples are available and the UI is really good.

Inconvénients

In some features there where missing options, customizations and in one time I had to contact the support to ask to implement a small option, but they eventually did it.

Avantages

The quality of the map is fantastic and the functionality that you can add to it.

Inconvénients

#1 - There is no support, you will be billed $$$$ out of the blue and the moment you inquire about it there is no one to talk to. The only person who will get back to you is sales and they will just say look at the forum. I even jumped onto the Discord in hopes to talk to someone quicker, a lot of the questions go unanswered as like they just don't care. I'm quite content taking my and my clients business elsewhere. Worst experience ever.

Avantages

Without a doubt, what I liked most about this tool was its powerful set of APIs and SDKs, this allowed me to easily integrate interactive maps into web applications and for road design (autonomous tasks) for the university. In addition, something else that I liked a lot is its high-quality and precise geographic data, since this was essential to carry out analysis and make informed decisions about map development, more specifically about roads.

Inconvénients

Perhaps the only problem that I found with this tool is its cost, in my case it did not affect me because my university provided me with the paid version, however for other users who do not have the money, certain important functions of this tool will be limited.

Avantages

Community support from Mapbox is excellent. They care about good causes, non-profit work, and their official Community team makes a good faith effort to support them.Mapbox has what is probably the most functional and effective web basemap editor in Studio.Its documentation for app building is phenomenal, and its team makes strong efforts to keep it up to date, understandable, and usable for even non-developers. The API makes building single page applications, simple interactive dashboards and data visualizations a breeze. I wouldn't develop with any other tool.

Inconvénients

Graceful degradation for smaller viewports needs more energy and development. End users demand some degree of functionality on their mobile devices - API provides options, but making maps work at even a base level can be very challenging.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

Nothing at all....its the worst map program I have ever used.

Inconvénients

Its slow loading. Missing most road numbers. Half the terrain doesn't show up.

Avantages

Customizability and performance are top notch.

Inconvénients

Offline with GL-JS is challenging but doable.

Avantages

Very inexpensive, especially compared to Google. Support is great too. Good luck talking to someone at Google if something does not work.

Inconvénients

Not all third party application support this. Many do, but it could be a deal breaker if your already invested in something that does not directly support mapbox.

Avantages

Map studio is bar far the best product out there

Inconvénients

Some limits on how much data you can upload.

Avantages

Mapbox is fully customizable to a level I have never experienced before. Mapbox allows for custom maps that can include as much or as little as needed. For example, components that can be added include administrative boundaries, buildings, land and water, natural features, place labels, point of interests labels, road network, transit, and much more. Additionally, color pallets can be added for further customization. This full customization is truly amazing.

Inconvénients

Mapbox can be rather complex to use for someone just starting out. There is a rather steep learning curve. The software is so powerful and complex that it can make things hard.

Avantages

Easy integration with may free and commercial API services

Inconvénients

Documentation can be hard to understand sometimes.

Avantages

Il software è ottimo. Hai tantissime funzionalità partendo dalle visualizzazioni di mappe fornite tramite open street map quindi con dati completi. Inoltre gli stili (design) delle mappe sono perfetti.

Inconvénients

Il punto debole del software è il prezzo ma se comparato con le funzionalità accurate offerte non è male rispetto ad altri competitors come maptiler.

Avantages

Performance of GL JS sdk. Mapbox studio is great.

Inconvénients

Not fully supported Globe View. Seems like it will be an industry stardard to use Globe View in map products but it's still far from perfect, especially using custom layers and lacking ability to display data over poles.

Avantages

A great alternative to other similar and more expensive software.

Inconvénients

The cost might be lower, but overall it is not so affordable.

Avantages

The design of the mas is nice and you can customize a lot of things.

Inconvénients

Not that easy to add layers but the customer support is very efficient.

Avantages

What I like most about this tool is that it is in the cloud. You do not have to go through difficult installation processes like with similar products. It is easy to work, even if you are not from the GIS area or have another career not related to geography. I like the possibility of interaction that has the data on a map. It is perfect for presentations to multidisciplinary groups of people who do not know how to analyze a map, since the final products possess qualities that traditional digital maps do not possess. Mapbox has known how to evolve in the field of GIS, combining the ease and practicality of similar services such as google maps, with the precision and efficiency in editing and processing proprietary software data such as Argis. The best part is that it is open source.

Inconvénients

It is a tool for online use, so when there are faults in the internet connection, obviously the quality of the mapbox service is limited. In addition, the tool has some free geoprocessing and upload functions to the cloud, but those of us working with GIS know that a map completed with its associated data base can weigh hundreds of MB, and that cloud storage space It is definitely not free and nothing affordable.

Avantages

Mapbox provides intuitive studio GUI for developers. Easy to design Maps for developers. Either use API for designing or use web GUI, both provide endless features. High customization, Programming Language Support, GIS application strong backend support, Large community support makes is most usable product.

Inconvénients

Data Visualization and Geo location plotting requires more understanding of the code samples. No official support for major languages than JavaScript.

Avantages

I'm definitely a more simplistic user of this platform; I mainly use it to create period maps and detail locations of interest. I know there is a much more in-depth side to it for power users. It essentially lets you create highly detailed and stylized maps, and even interactive maps. I can't speak for the software development side since I'm not a developer, but I know that it allows for you to create custom maps for your project using your own data, styles, and customer interactions, that you can then deploy in various settings.

Inconvénients

I guess since it is aimed at developers, it can definitely be confusing to try and use if you are not one.

Avantages

Mapbox makes it easy to create custom-colored maps, but that's not where its power lies. Mapbox's API allows us to implement custom maps and pins integrating our data simply. The vector-based map is fast and integration is simple with their documentation

Inconvénients

No real cons to speak of. You really need to be a programmer to work with mapbox though, lay people will find it challenging to implement.

Avantages

I like how flexible it is - I can almost always get what I'm imaging to happen, without a huge amount of hassle, or without running into walls. It's easy to get up and running, and has a ton of API options.

Inconvénients

The learning curve is pretty steep, and there aren't a ton of demo projects that you can take and run with. It's also not the fastest rendering in the world.

Avantages

This mapping application is by far the most advanced tool for map development. It literally does whatever your imagination can dream up!

Inconvénients

There is quite a steep learning curve but with some Youtube digging and tutorials for members there is a massive amount to learn if you are not familiar with basic programming.

Avantages

I love the ability to call to the Open Street Map API and style the maps with the easy tools provided from Mapbox's Studio editor. Mapbox was easy to incorporate into my projects.

Inconvénients

Getting started I found it challenging to navigate the website and make use of all the resources that Mapbox provides.

Avantages

Mapbox is a solid map alternative to Google and Apple maps. Tesla uses it, Uber used to... It's nice for programming and customizable with good documentation for your own app.

Inconvénients

It can be expensive (but I'm not the one paying it haha). The API is not editable, only the SDK is, so not the entire software is customizable, only some.

Avantages

The restrictions around Google maps plugin to web projects make Mapbox a google alternative. It is a free service that does not require attaching a credit card to use.

Inconvénients

Mapbox is less detailed as compared to google maps in terms of showing building and their names in less known countries in Africa.

Avantages

It provides you the ability to have the English language instead of local while zooming in real-time. A big plus.

Inconvénients

The number of bugs on their repo on Github