angular-google-maps vs. angular-ui / ui-map

Question

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...)?

Answer 1

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).