Create Mappins vs ODL Studio

Create Mappins is a web platform for creating and sharing interactive maps with pins, locations, and data layers. Users can upload location data from CSV, and the site says maps update in seconds without technical setup. Layers can represent competitors, partners, demographics, or logistics zones; maps can be shared by link or embedded on a website. Teams can coordinate edits with roles and permissions, while analytics cover map views, pin interactions, and activity by region. An import tool carries over pin names, descriptions, and marker colors from MapCustomizer maps. Sales teams can import CSV exports from Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, or another CRM, but the product does not offer direct CRM sync. The Free plan costs nothing, billed forever, and allows up to 3 maps with 20 pins per map. Pro costs $20 a month and Business costs $90 a month, both billed monthly with unlimited maps and pins. Support ranges from community support on Free to priority support on Pro and dedicated support on Business.

ODL Studio is a free, standalone desktop application for customer-location analysis, sales territory design and fleet routing and scheduling. It stores data in Excel spreadsheets that can also be edited in Excel. The software geocodes addresses or postcodes, displays customers on a map and exports maps to PDF or Word. Users can paint territories on a map or generate them with an optimisation algorithm, then create reports with maps and territory statistics. For fleet planning, it schedules routes on real road networks, reports mileage and drive-time statistics, and shows routes on an interactive map. ODL Connect can call Studio functions from the command line for scheduled or on-demand background tasks, but it is a separate closed-source module. ODL Studio is free and open source under LGPL, with downloads listed for Windows, Linux and Mac. The Linux and Mac package requires Java Runtime 8 or higher, and the maker recommends at least 6 GB RAM and a dual-processor CPU. The downloads page lists version 1.4.1, released 3 November 2017.