Legacy products and features

This topic lists all Google Maps Platform products and features that are currently, or scheduled to be, in the Legacy stage.

How Legacy status works

Legacy is an intermediate lifecycle step to ease the transition between Generally Available services and Deprecated services.

• Legacy-marked services will not be available in new Cloud projects.
• Legacy-marked services will be officially feature frozen, and new feature requests will only be considered for updated non-Legacy services.
• Legacy-marked services will retain full support.
• Existing projects already using Legacy services can continue to do so. Legacy-marked services will transition to deprecated with required notice.

Active services with Legacy status

This section lists all products and features which are either Legacy or scheduled to be in Legacy.

Product Area	Legacy Service Name	Legacy Date	New Service Name	Migration guide
Routes	Distance Matrix API	March 1, 2025	Routes API	Guide
	Directions API	March 1, 2025
	JavaScript Distance Matrix Service	March 1, 2025	New JavaScript services will be provided in the future. "Star" this public issue to be notified of the availability of the new services.
	JavaScript Directions Service	March 1, 2025
Places	Places API	March 1, 2025	Places API (New)	Guide
	JavaScript Places Service	March 1, 2025	Place Class	Guide
	Places SDK for Android	March 1, 2025	Places SDK for Android (New)	Guide
	Places SDK for iOS	March 1, 2025	Places SDK for iOS (New)	Guide