Maps are useful for visualizing and sharing information about places around the world. For enterprises, Google Maps Engine has been providing businesses with professional tools to help them organize large datasets, make decisions, and give their customers important details about their locations and services.

Of course, experts aren’t the only ones who love to make maps. Today Google is launching Google Maps Engine Lite (Beta), so any mapping enthusiast can now create and share robust custom maps using this powerful, easy-to-use tool. You can import small spreadsheets of locations onto a comprehensive map, visualize those places through a variety of styling and drawing options, and organize and compare up to three different data sets for your non-business purposes.

While there is plenty to play with today, Maps Engine Lite is still in beta and available in English only, and Google says they are eager to learn more about how people use it as they continue to build out more capabilities for the Maps Engine products.



To try Google Maps Engine Lite for your own custom mapping needs, visit http://mapsengine.google.com/map.