Case Study: mytaxi achieves real-time vehicle tracking and seamless taxi service with Google Cloud Platform

mytaxi connecting drivers and passengers

Intelligent Apps, founded in Hamburg in 2009, created mytaxi to connect drivers and passengers directly via a mobile app. Building the service from scratch, the team needed a mapping platform with broad reach, a robust API and future flexibility that could be implemented quickly without special staff training.

They chose Google Maps Platform, implementing mapping in about 40 hours and enabling live vehicle tracking, a management map overview of all taxis and trips, and seamless service operation with no downtime. Today the app has been downloaded over 10 million times, serves more than 45,000 taxis in 80+ cities, and provides real‑time driver info and trip pricing to users.

mytaxi

Jan-Niclaus Mewes

Founder