What data is sent by the Google Maps API

Question

I was looking for information about data and data security when using the Google Maps API, but I could not find anything that would answer my specific question. We hoped to use Google Maps to plan our customers and overlay other information from above. I have all the client details (name, address, zip code, Lat, Lon and other key data) in the file and some test data is used. I can successfully build test data on Google Maps, and it looks like this is exactly what I would like to use.

The question I have is what data is sent to Google for the displayed map - all my data goes outside, or I just pull the maps back into the browser and display the data locally in the browser (i.e. no data arrives from the outside).

thanks

Answer 1

Your additional data is never sent to Google’s servers. The entire map is built in JS, so once you have loaded the Gmap scripts, there is no need to send data.

You can check this in the browser’s developer console: no additional AJAX request will be made to Google as soon as the first map display is complete.

If you use the geocoding or routes service (and possibly other services, but I never used them), you need to send addresses or LatLng to Google via AJAX for calculation.