Google Maps Platform
The Google Maps Platform gives you access to 3 mapping products, Maps, Routes and Places, allowing you to integrate Google Maps into your applications. The Google Maps Platform is available for multiple platforms and web services. Google Maps empowers you to create beautiful maps for your sites and apps.
Features
- local data: Provide your application access to Google’s worldwide database
- Routing and traffic: provide directions and routing
- Predictive Travel Time: historical time of day and week
- Distance Matrices: travel time and distance between many pairs
- Address Auto-completion: Make address entry easy for your users
- Forward and Reverse Geocoding: search for locations on the map
- Street View: embed Street View panoramas into your application
- Business, POI Search: access Google's worldwide database of business listings
- Drawing Tools: enable your users to select areas
- Real-Time Traffic: colour-coded to reflect the current traffic
Benefits
- Make Better Decisions - Connect with unique insights
- Deepen User Engagement - Increase visitor interactions
- Streamline Operations - Monitor, manage and protect important assets
Pricing
£0.50 a unit
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 13
Service ID
4 8 1 5 7 8 5 7 8 5 2 4 9 8 5
Contact
Ancoris Limited
Andre Azevedo | Jen Holroyd | Sean McAndrew
Telephone: +44 (0) 3452626747
Email: gcloud@ancoris.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- No
- System requirements
- Internet Connectivity with a modern web browser
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
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P1: 30 mins
P2: 1 hour
P3-P4: 4 hours - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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Google provides a single level of support for Google Maps in line with other enterprise service providers.
Ancoris Also provide an enhanced Support Service -please see our related entry in the "Support" section - "Google Maps API Support services", which provide onboarding , health check, usage monitoring and roadmap services - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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Google provides a proven business transformation framework based on highly regarded research in accredited universities.
Ancoris also provide an enhanced Support Service which assists in onboarding users -please see our related entry in the "Support" section - "Google Maps API Support services", which provide onboarding , health check, usage monitoring and roadmap services - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- No data is stored with the service
- End-of-contract process
- Access to the APIs is terminated
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- Separate SDKs / APIs are available for iOS and Android
- Service interface
- No
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- All functionality is available via the APIs
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- No
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- Google Maps is powered by a massively scaleable infrastructure which already services more than 1 Billion users. The addition of any practicable number of users has a very low impact
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- The Google Maps Support Portal provides analytics on how and when the APIs have been used in detail. Including what API has been used, interactions (zoom, pan), page views and map loads down to every minute
- Reporting types
- Real-time dashboards
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Other locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- In-house
- Protecting data at rest
- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Equipment disposal approach
- In-house destruction process
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- N/A
- Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
- CSV
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Contractually Google's Service Level is guaranteed to 99.9% availability for any calendar month and backed with service credits.
- Approach to resilience
- All data is redundantly stored across a minimum of 3 data centers
- Outage reporting
- Google provides customer alerts and a public uptime dashboard here: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en-GB&v=status. The dashboard advises across the G Suite services on degradation or downtime.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Depending on administrator preference, users can be signed in via a federated identity service, including AD or use G Suite as their identity backend. 2 Factor authentication is supported and can be enforced.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- No audit information available
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- No audit information available
- How long system logs are stored for
- Between 1 month and 6 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Ernst & Young
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 15/04/2015
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Any service not listed on the ISO certificate is not covered.
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
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- HIPAA
- Ferpa
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- Our customers and regulators expect independent verification of security, privacy and compliance controls. Google undergoes several independent third party audits on a regular basis to provide this assurance. This means that an independent auditor has examined the controls present in our data centers, infrastructure and operations.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
- Google maintains security and patching of the host OS environments.
- Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
- Google have long enjoyed a close relationship with the security research community. To honor all the cutting-edge external contributions that help Google keep users safe, Google maintain a Vulnerability Reward Program for Google-owned web properties, running continuously since November 2010. More information can be found here: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- Within Google, members of the information security team review security plans for all networks, systems and services. They provide project-specific consulting services to Google’s product and engineering teams. They monitor for suspicious activity on Google’s networks, address information security threats, perform routine security evaluations and audits, and engage outside experts to conduct regular security assessments. We specifically built a full-time team, known as Project Zero, that aims to prevent targeted attacks by reporting bugs to software vendors and filing them in an external database.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- We have a rigorous incident management process for security events that affect the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of systems or data. If an incident occurs, the security team logs and prioritizes it according to its severity. Events that directly impact customers are assigned the highest priority. This process specifies courses of action, procedures for notification, escalation, mitigation, and documentation. Google’s security incident management program is structured around the NIST guidance on handling incidents (NIST SP 800–61). Key staff are trained in forensics and handling evidence in preparation for an event, including the use of third-party and proprietary tools
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
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Fighting climate change
We help organisations reduce their carbon footprint by migrating to the cloud. Depending on where you run your systems today, you can reduce up to 80% of your carbon emissions by moving to the Cloud. In fact, we have created a service called GreenLab, which helps organisations discover their current infrastructure, map out their footprint and build a business case which adds sustainability to the migration plan.
This is one of the reasons why we partner with Google Cloud, which is widely recognised as the "cleanest cloud". In 2007, Google was the first major company to commit to and achieve carbon neutrality. Since 2017 Google matched 100% of electricity consumption to neutralize all of their operational emissions since their founding. And are aiming higher - to run on carbon-free energy, 24/7, at all of their data centers by 2030. - Equal opportunity
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Equal opportunity
Ancoris is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, marital status, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
But we go beyond that. For example, we partner with Generation, a charity which helps candidates from all different backgrounds to get into technology through training and subsequent placement with tech companies. We continuously work on improving our recruitment processes and employer value proposition to ensure we are able to both attract and retain the most diverse pool of talent. We are also committed to promoting talent from within, which enables our diverse employee base to continually develop and rise to the top of the organisation.
Pricing
- Price
- £0.50 a unit
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- Free version gives full access to APIs for $200 worth of credit