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Shareable Route Plans: A Simple, Low-Cost Feature Your Customers Will Love

Shareable Route Plans: A Simple, Low-Cost Feature Your Customers Will Love

Your website visitors plan a journey — then what? Shareable routes let them send directions via text, QR code, CarPlay, or GPX file in a single tap. Here's why it matters for your business and how easy it is to add.

The Goggle team · 5 August 2026
Multi-Modal Directions Across Great Britain — Car, Bike, Foot and Public Transport

Multi-Modal Directions Across Great Britain — Car, Bike, Foot and Public Transport

Plan routes by car, bike, foot or public transport — including GB National Rail and London transit — with a single API call. Here's what you can build with Goggle Places Directions.

The Goggle team · 25 July 2026
Geolocation Meets Local Search: Building 'What's Near Me' Experiences

Geolocation Meets Local Search: Building 'What's Near Me' Experiences

Combine the browser Geolocation API with Goggle Places' Nearby lookup to build powerful 'what's around here' features — pubs, EV chargers, hotels, and more.

The Goggle team · 24 July 2026
Why Vector Maps Beat Raster Tiles — and How to Add Them in Minutes

Why Vector Maps Beat Raster Tiles — and How to Add Them in Minutes

Vector maps are faster, sharper, and infinitely customisable. Here's how they work and why Goggle Places' hosted vector maps make the switch effortless.

The Goggle team · 23 July 2026
5 Ways Predictive Search Helps Your Users Find Places Faster

5 Ways Predictive Search Helps Your Users Find Places Faster

From postcodes to pubs, predictive search transforms clunky address forms into instant, typo-tolerant lookups. Here are five ways it improves every interaction.

The Goggle team · 22 July 2026
We see you: introducing Goggle Places
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We see you: introducing Goggle Places

Predictive search and self-hosted maps, priced per request and GB-first. Here’s why we built it.

The Goggle team · 21 July 2026