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Custom maps web application, pre-made service or from scratch?

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First off, sorry for wording the title so horridly.

What I mean is that I want to make a very custom map based application(think uber mobile app), with the google maps API, but I’m not sure if I should try to build it from scratch fully with my own custom code or if there’s is some existing service, like wordpress, that could host my application?

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I think it’s up to you to code it, and to find a suitable hosting company (assuming your app needs a backend to store data outside the phone).

You’ll need to tell more.

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Long ago I was on a team where we used the maps API along with GPS tracking for fleet vehicles. Even in testing we exhausted the free number of map API calls. This upset one of our lead designers as they thought map API use was free and unlimited (won’t discuss why they thought that.)

So a list of things to consider.
1. Are you prepared to pay for map use?
2. What is this “app”? WordPress doesn’t host “apps” but you can use plugins and a little more but apps? No.
3. Do you have a dev team? What are they telling you?
4. No dev team? Time to get one.

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