Google Maps For Enterprise

Businesses can create and display their listings for free using Google Maps, attracting qualified prospects. By adding their own data feeds, businesses have full control over the freshness and quality of their content and can manage listings for businesses of any size. Visitors see richer information in geographical context when they are searching for local information.

Drive customers to your business with Google Maps API Premier

Enhance your customers’ experience on your website by providing interactive Google Maps to help your customers find exactly what they need from your company. Retail businesses can direct shoppers to store locations, real estate firms can help customers locate the perfect property, and travel companies can help clients make decisions about upcoming vacations – all with the Google Maps API Premier.

Google Maps are familiar and easy-to-use interactive maps that will keep your customers on your site and bring them back for future visits. Users can zoom in or out to the level of detail they desire, get driving directions to your location from anywhere, and see satellite imagery – and in select cities street view photography – of the locations on your map. All of these tools provide visitors with the context to better understand the information on your website.

Not having maps – or using more complex mapping tools – can frustrate your customers and make it difficult for them to find your locations or the geographic information they are looking for, which results in less traffic to your website and lost revenue opportunities.

Google Maps API Premier is designed for public websites with substantial traffic that want to give customers information in geographic context. It lets you embed Google Maps directly into your website, resulting in increased user satisfaction and time spent on your website, higher return visitor rates, and additional revenue for your organization. The Premier version includes all the features of the free version of the Google Maps API, plus additional enhancements designed for the enterprise including guaranteed uptime, unlimited usage, additional customer support, control over advertisements, and a guaranteed term.

Fast, scalable, easy-to-use

Google Maps API Premier returns fast, relevant results to your customers – even on the busiest of websites. Google invests heavily in technical facilities around the world to support Google’s public Maps website, which has been designed for worldwide scalability and high interactivity. That same system powers the Google Maps API Premier, giving your organization the same high performance and availability that consumers have come to expect from Google, while saving your organization hardware and maintenance costs.

Chances are, your customers are already familiar with the easy-to-use Google Maps interface. Google renders maps to visitors with sub-second response time and provides comprehensive map data for all of North America, Europe, and Asia. Google Maps API Premier is the only choice that lets your organization deliver accurate, customized maps quickly to your customers around the globe.

The Google Maps API Premier also allows web developers to get started quickly; you can develop prototypes using your own data in days. Website Figure 2: Property listings on eNeighborhoods administrators can create powerful mapping applications on your website by combining your organization’s data with the flexibility and features of Google Maps. With the Premier version, administrators also gain control over advertisements that appear on the maps. The Google Maps API Premier has extensive documentation to assist you in implementing maps for your website, and Google customer support resources are available in the event you encounter a critical issue that requires Google’s support.

How it works

Organizations can easily add their content to a Google Map while maintaining the look and feel of your website. The Google Maps API Premier uses JavaScript to embed Google Maps into your website. Address and location information gets turned into geographic coordinates that you can use to place markers or position the map. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps and adding content to the map. It also includes a high quality and extensive geographic dataset that is ready for immediate use. Documentation is readily available at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/.