Alternatives to Bing Maps

Microsoft's web map with driving, transit and walking directions, live traffic and aerial imagery. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Bing Maps

    Microsoft's web map with driving, transit and walking directions, live traffic and aerial imagery.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Bing Maps.

  • Google Maps

    Google's map and navigation service with live traffic, transit directions and Street View.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    Google Maps adds Android and iOS apps with turn-by-turn navigation, Street View and business listings alongside web directions, traffic and transit, with Google's data collection.

  • MapQuest

    A long-running web and mobile map service for driving directions, trip planning and traffic.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    MapQuest also offers multi-stop trip planning and live traffic on the web, adds mobile apps, focuses on the US and Canada and shows advertising throughout.

  • Apple Maps

    Apple's map and navigation service with directions, traffic, guides and place search.

    FreeProprietarymacOSiOSWeb

    Apple Maps has a web version with fewer features than its native apps, which run only on Apple devices and add CarPlay and guides.

  • HERE WeGo

    A free map and navigation service from HERE with turn-by-turn driving directions.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOSWeb

    HERE WeGo adds Android and iOS apps with turn-by-turn driving directions and downloadable offline country maps, requiring no account, with good coverage in Europe.

  • OpenStreetMap

    A collaboratively edited world map you can browse, search, route on and edit in a browser.

    FreeOpen sourceWeb

    OpenStreetMap is an open-source, openly licensed web map with built-in routing on several engines that anyone can edit, though coverage varies by region and there is no offline use.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Bing Maps as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • GNOME Maps

    A map application for the GNOME desktop that searches places and plans routes using OpenStreetMap data.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Bing Maps is a proprietary browser map from Microsoft with driving, transit and walking directions, live traffic and aerial imagery.

  • Headway

    A self-hostable maps stack with search and routing, powered by OpenStreetMap data.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Bing Maps is Microsoft's hosted web map with driving, transit and walking directions and aerial imagery, with no self-hosting option and no offline use.

  • Rome2Rio

    A web trip planner that compares plane, train, bus, ferry and car routes between any two places.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Bing Maps plans driving, transit and walking routes with live traffic and multi-stop trips in the browser, but it has no offline use and no phone navigation.

  • Yandex Maps

    A web map for finding places and planning routes by public transport, car or on foot.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Bing Maps is another browser map with driving, transit and walking directions, adding live traffic, aerial and 3D imagery and multi-stop planning.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.