Mapping Success: Google Maps Case Studies
We're continually amazed by the novel ways that over 150,000 websites use Google Maps. Join us on a video tour of a few that we've chosen to spotlight...maybe they'll inspire you!
Maps API
Google Maps at the heart of the pitch to prospective car-share members. Near-complete user satisfaction with a map-based car reservation interface. Zero API downtime in 18 months. No wonder Zipcar considers Google Maps API "critically important" to its operations.
Yelp uses the Google Maps API on 70% of its pages — the first map took hours to develop, and now several innovative tools help millions of users search and contribute reviews of local businesses.
By using the Google Maps API for its restaurant product, Tripadvisor received 1.5 million restaurant reviews in four months — four times as many as it had received in the prior seven years.
In just a few days, The New York Times developed interactive maps for all the destinations in its travel section, and today 50 percent of its travel section uses Google Maps.
Using the Google Maps API, Kayak added the ability to search for nearby businesses on its hotel results map in under 4 hours.
With the Google Maps API on 90% of Trulia's pages, users spend an average of 13 minutes on the site.
My Maps
Using the My Maps feature, broadcast station KPBS created a map providing real-time updates on the San Diego wildfires that received over two million views within a few days.
The written proof
Find out what the Google Maps API has done for organizations like Nike, Chemical Brothers, Twittervision and more.