Design Google Maps at scale — requirements, capacity, and trade-offs.
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How would you design Google Maps?
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Design Google Maps
Maps needs tiles, places search, routing, and live traffic.
| Layer | Stack |
|---|---|
| Tiles | 256×256 PNG/WebP pyramids z/x/y CDN immutable + client cache |
| Places | Elasticsearch + Geohash inverted index |
| Routing | Graph A* + Contraction Hierarchies prec |
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