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Google Maps vs HypaSpace

Google Maps gets them to the gate. HypaSpace takes it from there.

Google Maps is brilliant at getting people to your gate, and 2 billion people use it every month. Once they’re through it, things get vaguer. Here’s how Google Maps compares with HypaSpace across the nine things that matter most to the people who run a place, and why the best answer is often both.

THE SHORT ANSWER

Google Maps is the best way to be found. HypaSpace is the best way to be explored: a photorealistic twin of your place, in your brand, with on-site wayfinding and visitor data you own. As a Google Maps Content Partner, we keep your Google imagery current too.

HYPASPACE WINS 8 OF 9 ROUNDS, WITH 1 DRAW · 11 POINTS TO 21

NINE ROUNDS. ONE WINNER. SCROLL TO PLAY.

Hawar Resort captured by HypaSpace: high-resolution aerial imagery showing façades, pathways and architecture
Hawar Resort on Google Maps: low-resolution satellite imagery with little detail
GOOGLE MAPS TODAY HYPASPACE Google Maps Content Partner

Google Maps today: satellite imagery that can be years out of date.

HypaSpace: captured by low-altitude drone, current and crisp.

DRAG TO COMPARE

NINE ROUNDS

Google Maps vs HypaSpace, round by round

We scored both on the nine things that matter most to the people who run a place. Three dots is strong, an empty dot is a gap. Seven rounds are scored out of 3; the last two are judged on the evidence.

  1. Round 01 · Your real place

    HYPASPACE TAKES IT

    Seen from space, a few years ago.

    Google Maps HypaSpace

    Google’s satellite imagery typically lags change on the ground by 2 to 7 years, and it’s shot from hundreds of miles up. HypaSpace captures your place by low-altitude drone, close enough to see the garden beds.

    2–7 yearstypical lag between change on the ground and Google’s satellite imagery catching up.(Google Maps refresh cycle, observed)

  2. Round 02 · Immersive experience

    HYPASPACE TAKES IT

    Brilliant at city scale. Soft at garden-path scale.

    Google Maps HypaSpace

    Google’s 3D views are built for whole cities. HypaSpace is built for your place alone, photorealistic down to the benches, so visitors can explore it properly before they arrive.

  3. Round 03 · Live wayfinding on site

    HYPASPACE TAKES IT

    Gets them to the gate. Then what?

    Google Maps HypaSpace

    Google is superb on roads. Inside your grounds, the routes run out. HypaSpace picks up at the entrance and guides visitors to the treatment room, the tee or the lecture hall, along the real paths.

    Illustration of a visitor following a route on her phone
    WITH GOOGLE MAPSFollow the blue dot to the car park. Then you’re on your own.
    WITH HYPASPACEYou are here. Your route is drawn in, turn by turn.

  4. Round 04 · Visitor data you own

    HYPASPACE TAKES IT

    Your visitors. Someone else’s data.

    Google Maps HypaSpace

    Plenty is learned when people look up your place on Google. Very little of it comes back to you. With HypaSpace, the behavioural data belongs to you, anonymised and ready for your team.

    WITH GOOGLE MAPS0visitor behaviour shared back with you. Google keeps it.
    WITH HYPASPACE · LIVEDemo data
    1,284interactions today, all yours
    • OPENCafé, ground floor
    • ROUTECar park to reception
    • BOOKTable for two, 7pm
    • SHARESent to a friend
    • OPENOpening hours, shop
    • ROUTEMain gate to the gardens

  5. Round 05 · You control updates

    HYPASPACE TAKES IT

    You can suggest an edit. Then wait.

    Google Maps HypaSpace

    On Google Maps, your place changes when Google changes it. In HypaSpace you change it once and it’s live. And because we’re a verified Google Maps Content Partner, we send fresh imagery to Google too, typically live in months, not years.

  6. Round 06 · Integrates with your systems

    HYPASPACE TAKES IT

    Connected to everything except your operation.

    Google Maps HypaSpace

    Google’s platform is everywhere. HypaSpace connects to the things that run your place: your website, booking engine and BI tools, with booking links on the places themselves.

    WITH GOOGLE MAPSGoogle’s platform, not your booking engine.
    WITH HYPASPACE · CONNECTED
    HypaSpace
    • Website
    • Booking engine
    • Confirmation emails
    • Kiosks
    • BI tools

  7. Round 07 · Fast to launch and load

    A DRAW

    It’s Google. Of course it’s fast. A draw.

    Google Maps HypaSpace

    No arguments here. HypaSpace keeps pace in the browser, with no app to download, and loads on a five-year-old phone.

  8. Round 08 · When something changes

    HYPASPACE TAKES IT

    Wait. Then wait a bit longer.

    GOOGLE MAPS Wait HYPASPACE Update once, live everywhere

    Two to seven years is a long time to look like a building site. HypaSpace changes when your place does, and helps Google catch up.

    GOOGLE MAPS · 3 STEPS
    1. Suggest an edit
    2. Wait for review
    3. Wait for new imagery
    HYPASPACE · 2 STEPS
    1. Update once
    2. Live everywhere

  9. Round 09 · Whose brand it carries

    HYPASPACE TAKES IT

    Their logo. Your place. Your competitors next door.

    GOOGLE MAPS Google’s HYPASPACE Yours

    On Google Maps, your place sits under Google’s brand, a scroll away from everyone else nearby. HypaSpace shows your place in your colours, on your website and channels.

    2 billionpeople use Google Maps every month, so your Google presence matters too.(Google, 2024)

THE VERDICT

Google Maps 11
vs
HypaSpace 21

HYPASPACE WINS 8 OF 9 ROUNDS, WITH 1 DRAW · 11 POINTS TO 21

Use Google to be found. Use HypaSpace to be explored.

This isn’t either/or. Google Maps gets visitors to your gate; HypaSpace shows them the real place, guides them once they’re inside and tells you what they did. And as a verified Google Maps Content Partner, we keep your place looking current on Google as well.

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Google Maps HypaSpace
Your real place
Immersive experience
Live wayfinding on site
Visitor data you own
You control updates
Integrates with your systems
Fast to launch and load
When something changes WaitUpdate once, live everywhere
Whose brand it carries Google’sYours

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