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Google Maps Platform

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Over the past 20 years, mobile and location has transformed what businesses can do and how their customers experience the world. Google Maps Platform has been fortunate to play a role in this evolution. Explore how you can visualize and understand the real world with our products. Learn how we can help you immerse audiences in new ways, improve user experiences and operations, and access insights to make faster, more informed business and sustainability decisions.

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🌉 Google Maps Platform Places Insights can help you find verified, "net-new" leads your CRM is missing.

✍️ Target by 500+ categories and 70+ attributes to drive your sales leads with up-to-date data ➡️ goo.gle/4eeVjiF

Transform your maps with new tools for immersive 3D experiences and granular place information

Transform your maps with new tools for immersive 3D experiences and granular place information

Imagery Insights significantly expands, leveraging innovation from Google Earth AI, to help you transform how you understand our planet and make decisions ➡️ goo.gle/4ctPJYu

🦅 We will be launching Aerial and Satellite Insights to put global high-res imagery at your fingertips. Broaden your analysis from city street details to a bird's-eye view of the planet to make data-driven decisions at scale.
🛰️ Aerial and Satellite Models with Google Cloud's Model Garden transforms geospatial workflows with planetary-scale insights, without model training or maintenance. And, unlock insights from the data you already own.
☀️ Solar Insights, a high-res dataset designed to pinpoint market opportunities and accelerate solar adoption, provides analysis-ready data on per-building solar potential, roof statistics, and existing solar arrays across over 90% of buildings in the U.S. and Europe, to help identify high-value customers and optimize network planning.
🏙️ Street View Insights will be eleva

Imagery Insights significantly expands, leveraging innovation from Google Earth AI, to help you transform how you understand our planet and make decisions ➡️ goo.gle/4ctPJYu 🦅 We will be launching Aerial and Satellite Insights to put global high-res imagery at your fingertips. Broaden your analysis from city street details to a bird's-eye view of the planet to make data-driven decisions at scale. 🛰️ Aerial and Satellite Models with Google Cloud's Model Garden transforms geospatial workflows with planetary-scale insights, without model training or maintenance. And, unlock insights from the data you already own. ☀️ Solar Insights, a high-res dataset designed to pinpoint market opportunities and accelerate solar adoption, provides analysis-ready data on per-building solar potential, roof statistics, and existing solar arrays across over 90% of buildings in the U.S. and Europe, to help identify high-value customers and optimize network planning. 🏙️ Street View Insights will be eleva

🦾 We're powering the next era of agentic experience with our new grounding capabilities → goo.gle/3OCtLJG

🗺️ Grounding Lite: A portable and powerful way to bring the power of Google Maps to LLMs via MCP is now generally available
⚡ Grounding with Google Maps: Now extends beyond location data to include routing capabilities, available in private preview in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Gemini API, and Google AI Studio
📷 Maps Imagery Grounding: Anchors generative AI in Google Maps’ Street View imagery, providing developers a clean canvas to build location-specific assets within the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
💬 Maps Agentic UI Toolkit: Bring Maps Grounding data to life with this toolkit that serves as the geospatial visualization intelligence layer that gives your AI agents a "visual voice"

Learn more in our grounding blog at the link above.

🦾 We're powering the next era of agentic experience with our new grounding capabilities → goo.gle/3OCtLJG 🗺️ Grounding Lite: A portable and powerful way to bring the power of Google Maps to LLMs via MCP is now generally available ⚡ Grounding with Google Maps: Now extends beyond location data to include routing capabilities, available in private preview in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Gemini API, and Google AI Studio 📷 Maps Imagery Grounding: Anchors generative AI in Google Maps’ Street View imagery, providing developers a clean canvas to build location-specific assets within the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform 💬 Maps Agentic UI Toolkit: Bring Maps Grounding data to life with this toolkit that serves as the geospatial visualization intelligence layer that gives your AI agents a "visual voice" Learn more in our grounding blog at the link above.

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https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform

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🚨 We're live! DevX Engineers Ryan Baumann and Teresa Qin offer their insight on real-time reasoning agents, plus answer your submitted questions. Learn to:

🪄 Move from deterministic engineering to probabilistic orchestration
😶‍🌫️ Avoid cascading hallucination problems for

Google Maps Platform Fireside Chat: Grounding Agentic Solutions with Google Maps Platform

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📢 Join DevX Engineers Ryan Baumann and Teresa Qin on May 15 for a conversation about building trustworthy, real-time reasoning Agents.

They'll examine usecases for maps and agents, talk through agent architectures, and answer your submitted questions!

Join the Google Maps

🌍 Using Earth AI, we're combining high-res satellite views with Street View, so now businesses can track regional trends and zoom into street-level details all in one place.

Learn more ➡️ goo.gle/43aZy7W

#GoogleMapsPlatform #Geospatial

Transform your maps with new tools for immersive 3D experiences and granular place information

Google Maps Platform

Google Maps Platform

🧠💡 Ready to build trustworthy, real-time reasoning Agents?

Join Google Maps Platform DevX Engineers Ryan Baumann and Teresa Qin on May 15 on Discord to catch our second fireside chat, where Ryan and Teresa will discuss building agents that reason over up-to-date places, routes, weather, and more.

They'll also answer your questions about maps and agent use cases and agent architecture. Join the Google Maps Platform Discord ➡️ goo.gle/4eyaJPe?

🧠💡 Ready to build trustworthy, real-time reasoning Agents? Join Google Maps Platform DevX Engineers Ryan Baumann and Teresa Qin on May 15 on Discord to catch our second fireside chat, where Ryan and Teresa will discuss building agents that reason over up-to-date places, routes, weather, and more. They'll also answer your questions about maps and agent use cases and agent architecture. Join the Google Maps Platform Discord ➡️ goo.gle/4eyaJPe?

🌉 Google Maps Platform Places Insights can help you find verified, "net-new" leads your CRM is missing.

✍️ Target by 500+ categories and 70+ attributes to drive your sales leads with up-to-date data ➡️ goo.gle/4eeVjiF

❕ Places Insights now supports 180 new Place Types.

Places Insights now includes over 480 place types and 70 attributes. Whether you’re hunting for a romanian_restaurant or scouting FUTURE_OPENING locations arriving in the next 90 days, your queries just got a lot more surgical.

📜 See the complete list of supported types ➡️ goo.gle/4udWMdI

There's a major AI transformation happening in geospatial tech, and it's affecting devs of all stripes. 🌐

Google Maps Platform and @GoogleEarth Vice President and GM Yael Maguire joined The Spatial Lab's Matt Forrest to discuss "Ask Maps," AI for auditing, grounding, disaster response, and Earth AI.

❔ What will the new era of geospatial AI look like for developers? ➡️ goo.gle/4d83yuS

There's a major AI transformation happening in geospatial tech, and it's affecting devs of all stripes. 🌐 Google Maps Platform and @GoogleEarth Vice President and GM Yael Maguire joined The Spatial Lab's Matt Forrest to discuss "Ask Maps," AI for auditing, grounding, disaster response, and Earth AI. ❔ What will the new era of geospatial AI look like for developers? ➡️ goo.gle/4d83yuS

📢 Need some inspiration for your next geospatial project?

Check out Google Maps Platform Photorealistic 3D Maps Challenge winner Terrain Highlighting Modifications!

Inspired by vintage cartography, this project highlights terrain on a ski run to help the user choose the most appropriate and safest ski run for their skill level. Check out how the devs used Google Maps Platform tools to build ➡️ goo.gle/496i3Ol

📢 Need some inspiration for your next geospatial project? Check out Google Maps Platform Photorealistic 3D Maps Challenge winner Terrain Highlighting Modifications! Inspired by vintage cartography, this project highlights terrain on a ski run to help the user choose the most appropriate and safest ski run for their skill level. Check out how the devs used Google Maps Platform tools to build ➡️ goo.gle/496i3Ol

💡 Build a trip planning agent with the Agent Development Kit and Grounding with Google Maps using our latest codelab. Get started ➡️ goo.gle/4efOpcY

You'll prompt the agent to generate scenic routes and restaurant recommendations, leveraging real-world data from Google Maps. Learn to:

⚒️ Scaffold a new agent using the Agent Starter Pack
⚡️ Add grounding tools to an ADK Agent definition
☑️ Test an ADK agent using the built-in web runner

💡 Build a trip planning agent with the Agent Development Kit and Grounding with Google Maps using our latest codelab. Get started ➡️ goo.gle/4efOpcY You'll prompt the agent to generate scenic routes and restaurant recommendations, leveraging real-world data from Google Maps. Learn to: ⚒️ Scaffold a new agent using the Agent Starter Pack ⚡️ Add grounding tools to an ADK Agent definition ☑️ Test an ADK agent using the built-in web runner

ICYMI: Cloud Next sessions are available to view online. Check out some of the great news from Google Maps Platform at the links ⤵️

➡️ Turn your AI into a local expert: Building agents with real-world reasoning goo.gle/4cRmlKA

➡️ What's new in BigQuery: The data platform for AI goo.gle/4the6hi

➡️ Agent development and AgentOps with BigQuery, ADK, and MCP goo.gle/4cRWLoJ

➡️ Supercharge Gemini: Grounding with enterprise data, Google Search, and Google Maps goo.gle/4cRmqOo

➡️ Advancements in generative media with Google DeepMind and Google Cloud goo.gle/4cXzzp8

➡️ Google MCP Services: Connect AI agents to cloud infrastructure in minutes goo.gle/3Rbt8HK

ICYMI: Cloud Next sessions are available to view online. Check out some of the great news from Google Maps Platform at the links ⤵️ ➡️ Turn your AI into a local expert: Building agents with real-world reasoning goo.gle/4cRmlKA ➡️ What's new in BigQuery: The data platform for AI goo.gle/4the6hi ➡️ Agent development and AgentOps with BigQuery, ADK, and MCP goo.gle/4cRWLoJ ➡️ Supercharge Gemini: Grounding with enterprise data, Google Search, and Google Maps goo.gle/4cRmqOo ➡️ Advancements in generative media with Google DeepMind and Google Cloud goo.gle/4cXzzp8 ➡️ Google MCP Services: Connect AI agents to cloud infrastructure in minutes goo.gle/3Rbt8HK

Ground your AI in trusted geospatial data with Google Maps Platform ➡️ goo.gle/4tDPhge

🧠 Grounding with Google Maps: Access the next generation of geospatial intelligence and empower your enterprise AI solutions via Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, the Gemini API, and AI Studio.
⚡️ Maps Imagery Grounding: Ground generative media in physical reality to create high-fidelity, immersive stories, allowing you to seamlessly insert you own subjects with global-scale and accuracy.
🦾 Maps Grounding Lite: Create conversational, location-based experiences with information on places, weather forecasts, and routing details such as time and distance.

Learn more about how to transform LLM reasoning, customize AI responses, and create grounded generative media at the link above.

Ground your AI in trusted geospatial data with Google Maps Platform ➡️ goo.gle/4tDPhge 🧠 Grounding with Google Maps: Access the next generation of geospatial intelligence and empower your enterprise AI solutions via Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, the Gemini API, and AI Studio. ⚡️ Maps Imagery Grounding: Ground generative media in physical reality to create high-fidelity, immersive stories, allowing you to seamlessly insert you own subjects with global-scale and accuracy. 🦾 Maps Grounding Lite: Create conversational, location-based experiences with information on places, weather forecasts, and routing details such as time and distance. Learn more about how to transform LLM reasoning, customize AI responses, and create grounded generative media at the link above.

🌎 Combine unmatched geospatial data with the power of Earth AI to unlock valuable insights. From Imagery Insights including Aerial and Satellite Insights and Models and Street View Insights, to Roads Management Insights, Population Dynamics Insights, and more, Google Maps Platform has the tools and datasets for your geospatial needs.

Reach your goals and get the bigger picture with our rich data and imagery that helps you create actionable intelligence, automate asset management, monitor environmental changes, and shift to proactive maintenance. 🧠 Explore ➡️ goo.gle/4cMovMZ

🌎 Combine unmatched geospatial data with the power of Earth AI to unlock valuable insights. From Imagery Insights including Aerial and Satellite Insights and Models and Street View Insights, to Roads Management Insights, Population Dynamics Insights, and more, Google Maps Platform has the tools and datasets for your geospatial needs. Reach your goals and get the bigger picture with our rich data and imagery that helps you create actionable intelligence, automate asset management, monitor environmental changes, and shift to proactive maintenance. 🧠 Explore ➡️ goo.gle/4cMovMZ

Bring more of your data to Google Earth with new shapefile and 3D model imports

Google Maps Platform

Google Maps Platform

🛰️ Want to learn how @Vantortech is using Earth AI models to analyze impacted areas? ➡️ goo.gle/4eHeEsY

“The combination of Vantor’s spatial foundation and Google’s Aerial and Satellite Models is creating a new class of geospatial intelligence systems that can interpret activity across the planet, surface meaningful signals, and deliver insights directly into operational workflows. In demonstrations with customers, where we’ve integrated models into our persistent monitoring application called Sentry, the level of insight has been remarkable.” — Peter Wilczynski, Chief Product Officer, Vantor

🛰️ Want to learn how @Vantortech is using Earth AI models to analyze impacted areas? ➡️ goo.gle/4eHeEsY “The combination of Vantor’s spatial foundation and Google’s Aerial and Satellite Models is creating a new class of geospatial intelligence systems that can interpret activity across the planet, surface meaningful signals, and deliver insights directly into operational workflows. In demonstrations with customers, where we’ve integrated models into our persistent monitoring application called Sentry, the level of insight has been remarkable.” — Peter Wilczynski, Chief Product Officer, Vantor

Get ready to map a smarter future with BigQuery and Google Earth AI models and datasets and harness AI for planetary understanding → goo.gle/4mWFdwz

👁️ Street View Insights is generally available to draw on a vast repository of images and turn them into actionable

What an incredible #CloudNext! We shared Google Maps Platform's biggest news of the season with new ways to build with imagery and AI, including Imagery Grounding, Imagery Insights, Roads Management Insights, Population Dynamics Insights, and so much more.

It was a blast getting to meet so many enthusiastic devs in person — we can't wait to keep innovating with you!

Imagery Insights significantly expands, leveraging innovation from Google Earth AI, to help you transform how you understand our planet and make decisions ➡️ goo.gle/4ctPJYu

🦅 We will be launching Aerial and Satellite Insights to put global high-res imagery at your fingertips. Broaden your analysis from city street details to a bird's-eye view of the planet to make data-driven decisions at scale.
🛰️ Aerial and Satellite Models with Google Cloud's Model Garden transforms geospatial workflows with planetary-scale insights, without model training or maintenance. And, unlock insights from the data you already own.
☀️ Solar Insights, a high-res dataset designed to pinpoint market opportunities and accelerate solar adoption, provides analysis-ready data on per-building solar potential, roof statistics, and existing solar arrays across over 90% of buildings in the U.S. and Europe, to help identify high-value customers and optimize network planning.
🏙️ Street View Insights will be eleva

Imagery Insights significantly expands, leveraging innovation from Google Earth AI, to help you transform how you understand our planet and make decisions ➡️ goo.gle/4ctPJYu 🦅 We will be launching Aerial and Satellite Insights to put global high-res imagery at your fingertips. Broaden your analysis from city street details to a bird's-eye view of the planet to make data-driven decisions at scale. 🛰️ Aerial and Satellite Models with Google Cloud's Model Garden transforms geospatial workflows with planetary-scale insights, without model training or maintenance. And, unlock insights from the data you already own. ☀️ Solar Insights, a high-res dataset designed to pinpoint market opportunities and accelerate solar adoption, provides analysis-ready data on per-building solar potential, roof statistics, and existing solar arrays across over 90% of buildings in the U.S. and Europe, to help identify high-value customers and optimize network planning. 🏙️ Street View Insights will be eleva