Decision Workspace
flexpolyline vs rapidgeo-polyline vs flate2
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
49
flexpolyline
growingv1.0.0
Flexible Polyline encoding: a lossy compressed representation of a list of coordinate pairs or triples
50
rapidgeo-polyline
experimentalv0.1.2
Fast Google Polyline Algorithm encoding/decoding for geographic coordinates
79
flate2
stablev1.1.9
DEFLATE compression and decompression exposed as Read/BufRead/Write streams. Supports miniz_oxide and multiple zlib implementations. Supports zlib, gzip, and raw deflate streams.
Core Metrics
| flexpolyline | rapidgeo-polyline | flate2 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 49 | 50 | 79 |
| Total Downloads | 734.1K | 681 | 424.0M |
| 30d Downloads | 14.2K | 6 | 29.6M |
| Dependents | 9 | 0 | 55.6K |
| Releases | 2 | 3 | 77 |
| Last Updated | 549d ago | 128d ago | 52d ago |
| Age | 5y 11m | 6m | 11y 4m |
Health Breakdown
flexpolyline
Maintenance
4
Quality
19
Community
9
Popularity
7
Documentation
10
rapidgeo-polyline
Maintenance
13
Quality
15
Community
6
Popularity
3
Documentation
13
flate2
Maintenance
17
Quality
21
Community
19
Popularity
8
Documentation
14
Technical Details
| flexpolyline | rapidgeo-polyline | flate2 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 1.0.0 | 0.1.2 | 1.1.9 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| Crate Size | 10KB | 24KB | 83KB |
| Features | 0 | 3 | 13 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.6% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2021 | 2018 |
| MSRV | — | — | 1.67.0 |
| Owners | 3 | 1 | 3 |
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Quick Verdict
- •flate2 leads with a health score of 79/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •flate2 is depended on by 55.6K crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •⚠ flexpolyline has not been updated in over a year.
- •rapidgeo-polyline is pre-1.0 — API may change.