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I'm new to angularJS and like to build an simple application, where an google map is displayed in order to load long/lat coordinates to display them in form of markers insight the map. For me it looks like, there are two main google-map extensions for angluarJS:

https://github.com/nlaplante/angular-google-maps

and

https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-map

Which one would you recommend to use? Are there any main differences? Which one could be more "official" (to get longer support, etc...)?

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Your question is likely to end up being closed because "Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam." See meta.stackexchange.com/questions/139399/… – duncan Mar 13 '14 at 14:49
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Okay.. this is a pity, because stackoverflow is a great platform to share experiences, best practices and ideas who to solve a problem. I don't know an equal platform with such an high grade of specialized and experienced colleagues. But ,by reading that (see accepted Answer): meta.stackexchange.com/questions/147641/… this kind of questions is okay, I only have to rewrite the question a bit. Isn't it something like nitpicking? – The Bndr Mar 14 '14 at 8:13
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At this moment, I'd suggest using https://github.com/nlaplante/angular-google-maps (AGM). It is more advanced and mature than ui-map. AGM has several abstraction layers for markers, polygons, etc. and the bootstrapping process is more clean. I personally don't like Ui-Map's bootstrapping method. You have to define a global callback which is to be called after the google maps api is loaded.

  • AGM has a bigger community.

  • On the contrary UI-Map is less than 4KB while AGM is more than 100KB. So, UI-Map is a better solution if you are looking for something light weight (especially if the map is just a part of a bigger application).

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can you suggest the best forum to get help solving problems with AGM. Their Google+ site has lots of questions, but few answers. I posted a problem to the Google Groups Angular forum and have no responses, or even views, after 2 days. Is Stackoverflow best? or are there other good forums to get help with AGM code? – Mike_Laird May 22 '14 at 19:50
    
I found helpful and fast support by opening an issue on AGM at github. – The Bndr Jun 2 '14 at 12:37
    
If there's a possible issue or a bug, report it on github. If you're stuck in something, I think their community or Stackoverflow are the best options. – ningsuhen Jun 5 '14 at 17:14
    
This is helpful. Couldn't get the other one working on fiddles or Koding. – Kyle Pennell Jun 24 '14 at 2:14
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To answer my own question and if the case, that someone hast the same dissension, here the way I go: I decided to take https://github.com/nlaplante/angular-google-maps because here I get an working example at the shortest time and it looks like, there is an active support with an short interval of updates and patches.

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Where are you getting "active support" for AGM coding problems. I'm not finding or getting it. Thx. – Mike_Laird May 22 '14 at 19:52
    
I found helpful and fast support by opening an issue on AGM at github. – The Bndr Jun 2 '14 at 12:38
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It seems to me they are both immature compare to other non-angular google map API abstractions. I've worked with several and the best I've seen so far is http://leafletjs.com/ but it's not google maps it's open street maps. https://github.com/tombatossals/angular-leaflet-directive

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