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# Migrating from Google Maps

Migrating from Google Maps to the [Radar Maps Platform](https://radar.com/maps/overview) is simple, and usually involves just a few lines of code. Find the Google Maps offerings used in your application below and learn about the corresponding cost-effective, developer-friendly Radar alternative.

### Maps

Google's maps offering is used for rendering maps in applications. Radar provides vector [base maps](https://radar.com/maps/maps) with beautiful out-of-the-box styles as an alternative. Check out the [maps explorer](https://dashboard.radar.com/maps/maps-explorer/maps) in the dashboard to see them in action.

| Google Maps Feature | Radar Feature                    |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| Dynamic Maps        | [Dynamic Maps](/maps/maps)       |
| Static Maps         | [Static Maps](/maps/static-maps) |

### Places

Google's Places APIs enable finding and geocoding locations such as addresses and points of interest. Radar's [Geocoding and Search APIs](https://radar.com/maps/geocoding) provide fully featured geocoding, autocomplete, address validation, and geolocation APIs as an alternative.

| Google Maps API        | Radar API                                          |
| ---------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- |
| Geocoding API          | [Forward Geocoding API](/api#forward-geocode)      |
| Reverse Geocoding API  | [Reverse Geocoding API](/api#reverse-geocode)      |
| N/A                    | [IP Geocoding API](/api#ip-geocode)                |
| Autocomplete API       | [Autocomplete API](/api#autocomplete)              |
| Place Autocomplete UI  | [Autocomplete Component](/maps/autocomplete)       |
| Address Validation API | [Address Validation API](/api#validate-an-address) |
| Nearby Search API      | [Places Search API](/api#search-places)            |
| Current Place API      | [Context API](/api#context)                        |

### Routes

Google's Routes APIs are used to calculate routes between locations or snap to roads. Radar's [routing APIs](https://radar.com/maps/routing) provide a suite of distance, matrix, directions, route match, and optimize APIs to power these use cases and more.

| Google Maps API     | Radar API                                                                                                      |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Distance Matrix API | [Distance Matrix API](/api#matrix)                                                                             |
| Directions API      | [Directions API](/api#directions)                                                                              |
| Snap to Roads API   | [Route Matching API](/api#route-match)                                                                         |
| Speed Limits API    | [Route Matching API](/api#route-match), with `speedLimit` included in the `roadAttributes` parameter           |
| Compute Routes API  | [Matrix API](/api#matrix), [Directions API](/api#directions), or [Route Optimization API](/api#optimize-route) |

## Support

Have questions or feedback on migrating from Google Maps to Radar? Let us know! Contact us at [radar.com/support](https://radar.com/support).