Mountaya + Google Maps
Google Maps owns the road. Mountaya owns everything after the trailhead.
Google Maps drives you to the parking lot, finds the bakery, and tells you when the lift station opens. Mountaya takes over where the pavement ends, and pulls Google's best bits in: Street View and trailhead POIs sit right inside the editor, next to activity-aware routing, terrain, and weather on the course you are about to run, ride, or ski.
Works with the tools you already use
Challenges we solve
One gets you there. The other plans what happens outside.
Design the course in Map Studio
Route across trail, ski touring, gravel, and six more activities on a 3D map. Read slope, surface, and the weather window on every meter, then check the trailhead with Street View and mark the parking, toilets, and food from Google Maps, all without leaving the editor.
Share it and publish it
Export a GPX for the watch, send a live link to your crew, and embed the branded map on your race site or resort portal in one line of code.
Drive there with Google Maps
Hand the approach back to Google: traffic, parking near the trailhead, and the opening hours of the refuge. Two tools, two moments of the same day.
Side by side
What each map handles
An honest look at where the street network ends and the outdoors begins. Google Maps wins on roads, business listings, and the global basemap. Mountaya brings Street View and trailhead POIs into planning, then wins on everything the terrain decides.
Mountaya is best at
Designing and publishing the outdoor route itself.
- Activity-aware routing across nine outdoor activities
- Terrain, slope, avalanche, and eleven weather overlays
- Per-meter elevation and surface profile before you commit
- GPX export to Garmin, Suunto, and Strava
- White-label map embedding for race sites and apps
- Street View and trailhead POIs (parking, toilets, food) via a live Google Maps integration
Google Maps is best at
Getting you and your crew to the start line.
- Turn-by-turn driving navigation and live traffic
- Parking, transit, and road closures on the approach
- Business listings, opening hours, and reviews
- Street View recon of trailheads and access roads
- The most complete global street and satellite basemap
Use case
How Campus Coach uses Mountaya as the single source of geospatial data for their 600,000 users.
Instead of juggling Google Maps, Mapbox, Strava, and other providers, we made Mountaya our single source of truth for all our geospatial data. Having one centralized, end-to-end platform radically simplifies how we manage our stack and build new products.
Jonathan Levy
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Frequently asked questions
No. Mountaya complements Google Maps. Google Maps is unbeatable for driving to the trailhead, finding parking, and checking whether the refuge is open. Mountaya designs the outdoor route itself, with activity-aware routing, terrain, and weather. Map Studio Pro even brings Google Maps inside the editor: scout access roads with Street View and drop the parking, toilets, and food POIs straight onto the course while you draw it.
Yes. Export your map from Google My Maps as KML, then import the KML or a GPX into Map Studio in seconds. From there you can refine the route with terrain and weather overlays, collaborate with your team, and publish a branded embed.
Only on the street network. Google Maps routes cars, pedestrians, and cyclists between addresses. It has no activity-aware routing, no slope or surface analysis, no avalanche or snow-depth layers, and no historical or forecast weather modes. That is exactly the ground Mountaya covers.
Yes. Google embeds always carry Google branding and stop at the street network. Mountaya's embedded Map Studio is white-label: your brand, your domain, one line of code, with elevation profiles, live weather, and the interactive course itself.