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.

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.

    While we envision that Legacy services will be turned down in the coming years, there is no date yet for when this will happen.

    Subject to the Google Maps Platform Terms of Service (section 9) Deprecation Policy, we will provide at least a 12-month notice prior to the decommission of the services.

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

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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