GeoMaps vs ODL Studio

GeoMaps turns spreadsheet, CRM, and database data into interactive maps for exploring locations and planning business trips. Users can plot thousands of records, filter them, customize markers, and find nearby locations. Maps can combine drawn territories, administrative boundaries, drive-time areas, radius rings, and imported shapefiles. For route planning, GeoMaps creates multi-stop routes with drive times that can be shared, printed, or exported to navigation apps. Visualization options include heatmaps, clusters, grids, region shading, demographic data, geographic centers, and H3 hexagons. Listed integrations include Google Sheets, Excel, HubSpot, PostgreSQL, Zapier, Make, and n8n, alongside other spreadsheet, CRM, database, automation, and REST API connections. Its AI map generation creates a map connected to data from a user description. GeoMaps is aimed at sales, field operations, and territory teams. iOS and Android companion apps display existing lists, records, layers, and routes. The free plan covers 1,000 locations and one user. Pro starts at $20/mo (annual); Enterprise starts at $79.00 per year.

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.