While it’s been an amazing ride having the benefits of Google Maps Engine (GME) available for your business and personal use at minimal fees, it’s time to move on. Google has notified users that support for this product will end in January 2016. Google Earth API support will end in December of 2015. MapBusinessOnline.com (MBO) may be a suitable substitute for your Google Engine mapping requirements. MapBusinessOnline.com, a web-based/Cloud business mapping service since 2010 has a growing user-base. MBO was developed by the same team that originally created Esri’s BusinessMAP – a desktop mapping alternative to MapPoint for more than a decade.
MapBusinessOnline provides a complete set of business mapping features offering many of Google Maps Engine’s business mapping features:
Feature Comparison | MBO | GME |
Import 250,000 records per map from CSV, XLS, text files | ** | |
Access and export Census demographic data | ||
Heat Map numeric data symbolization | ||
Create territories by zip, state & more |   | |
Includes 5 & 3 digit zips, counties, state, Census tracts & more | ||
Display periodic sales results by region or territory | ||
Conduct drive time analysis | ||
Print large format maps | ||
Market Analysis - Compare multiple datasets | ||
Unsurpassed technical support for new users | ||
Easily color code biz data | ||
Create optimized multi-stop routes on the map | ||
Up-to-date base maps included | ||
Link to websites and images from your business map | ||
Add draw objects to and manually drop points on the map | ||
Extract map images for use in slide shows presentations | ||
Data import API | ||
Share or embed interactive web maps | ||
Supports address geocoding in the USA, Canada and the UK | ||
Planned MBO Features | ||
Route creation and data management API | * | |
Import records from SHP, TAB, or Raster imagery | * |
*Feature scheduled for release soon
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This leading North American reseller of hardware and software supports millions of businesses worldwide. We get regular calls from SHI representatives who need to offer a MapPoint replacement or to simply provide business mapping software for a corporate or government account. SHI customers include users of annual subscriptions for the USA and Canada as well as collaborative Team Editing subscriptions for corporate accounts.
Software House International (SHI)
"We've tried the REST now we are using the BEST. After searching and trying other mapping programs for our delivery operations team and finding that we just couldn't get all the features that we required, we finally found MapBusinessOnline. Not only did it have all the features we needed including Longitude/Latitude and optimizing delivery routes, but it provided us tons of other bells and whistles. MBO proved to be a superb tool for our operations team to create routes and territories with the click of a few buttons while also allowing our reporting team to make beautiful maps that help our executive team visualize the story the data was telling. We are using this for the 2nd year in a row and will be renewing when it is time again. We pride ourselves at offering cutting edge applications to our millions of readers and subscribers worldwide and love that MBO helps us stay ahead of the technology curve by continuing to update their product and features. The release of MBO for the Desktop was a great addition and only helps make using the product even easier. To the staff at MBO — Keep up the great work!"
Dow Jones
This leading national footwear brand manufacturer uses MapBusinessOnline to conduct retail coverage assessments nationwide. They loved MBO’s ability to provide both street level detail and USA wide high level views of points-of-sale. Importing location enabled address databases for symbolization and color shading is easy. New and planned stores can be added to the map market analysis as products are launched and mature.
"Importing location enabled address databases for symbolization and color shading is easy."
Todd Eichelberger
Sales Director
Adidas