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Google Maps Platform

Google Maps Platform

Technology, Information and Internet

Mountain View, CA 62,422 followers

Build geospatial apps with robust APIs and SDKs, powered by global data that’s updated 100 million times daily.

About us

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. Create geospatial experiences and applications with robust APIs and SDKs, access insights and enable decisions with rich, analysis-ready geospatial datasets, and utilize no-code geospatial evaluation and analysis tools from Google Earth to enable faster, more holistic decision making and seamless collaboration. Go beyond the map with Google Maps Platform. Follow to get the latest news and insights, and celebrate 20 years of geospatial progress with Google Maps Platform, Google Earth and Google Earth Engine.

Website
mapsplatform.google.com
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Company size
10,001+ employees
Headquarters
Mountain View, CA

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  • Build with Google AI Studio's latest frontier models, specialized media APIs, and agentic capabilities ➡️ https://goo.gle/4ghVSr8 Join Thorsten Schaeff from the Developer Experience team at Google DeepMind to learn about the real-time multimodal capabilities of the Gemini ecosystem, including: 🗨️ speech-to-speech live translation 💻 sandboxed agent environments 🖼️ advanced video/image generation Combine spatial and location data with state-of-the-art AI tooling to build highly context-aware, multimodal applications.

  • Today, we're announcing the General Availability of Large Vehicle Routing in the Routes API, Route Optimization API, and Navigation SDK ➡️ https://goo.gle/4cNyroL LVR is designed to meet the specific requirements of commercial and specialized vehicle fleets: 🛣️ Provides compliant, highly optimized routes 🚛 Accounts for unique physical characteristics of large vehicles 🚧 Considers real-world road restrictions

    • A digital map displays truck route options between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, highlighting a green "avoid tolls" route and a blue "tolls" route. A top information box titled "Toll Cost Savings" explains that the toll-free route avoids PA Turnpike fees but is 19 miles longer and 36 minutes slower than the route with tolls. A legend in the bottom right compares the routes, showing the "Truck (avoid tolls)" path is 223 miles and takes 246 minutes.
    • A digital map shows a "Weight Limit Detour" for the Bridge of the Gods, which has a 25-ton weight limit. Three routes are color-coded: a short 5-mile route for cars (gray) and unloaded trucks (green), and a much longer 78-mile detour for loaded trucks (blue). A informational pop-up at the top states that the unloaded truck route is 74 miles shorter and 78 minutes faster than the loaded truck's required detour.
  • Our newest launches are here! ➡️ https://goo.gle/4wv0oZO Optimize for efficient journeys with: 👁️ The Navigation Connect API (Preview) to help you maintain end-to-end driver visibility 📍 The Isochrones API (Preview) to map highly accurate, real-world reachability based on actual travel time 📱 Places UI Kit Pro (GA for our Android and iOS mobile SDKs, web GA coming this fall) to own your entire user journey end-to-end directly in-app Learn more at the link.

    • Three mobile phone screenshots demonstrate a navigation app's user interface in both dark and light modes. The maps show routes on streets like Mahogany St and Chapel road, with various icons for search, volume, and reporting. A notification in the middle screen states "Trip data is being shared with [App Name]," while the right screen displays travel statistics like "23 min" and "23.1 km."
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    We're shipping big updates to Ask Maps!  Since we launched Ask Maps, I've been inspired to see how people are using Google Maps in totally new ways to ask the questions that are really on their minds.  Building on that, we're expanding Ask Maps to more than 150 markets in English and bringing new agentic capabilities, real-time transit information, Personal Intelligence, and more to Ask Maps. 🔹Food ordering: Order takeout in Ask Maps from partners like Square and Toast, with Uber Eats coming soon. 🔹Real-time transit info: Stay informed about up-to-the-minute delays for your bus or train ride. 🔹Personal Intelligence: Choose to securely connect Gmail, and Ask Maps will provide relevant suggestions for things to do and factor in upcoming flights and reservations. 🔹Conversational edits: Suggest tips and edits, like store hours, conversationally. This is just the start of how Ask Maps is making it easier to get things done!  More about these updates: https://lnkd.in/ekFJMhBP 

  • 🌦️Stop reacting to the weather—start planning for it. 🔗 https://goo.gle/4wG7n2B We're introducing historical Weather Insights, part of Earth AI, providing five years of high-resolution data down to a 4km grid. For industries like logistics, retail, and energy, this isn't just about knowing if it rained yesterday, it’s about using the past to predict the future. By blending this data with your own in BigQuery, you can: ✅ Optimize delivery routes based on seasonal patterns. ✅ Forecast demand for climate-sensitive products. ✅ Plan energy and travel projects with higher precision. Sign up at the link above for more info. #GoogleMapsPlatform #WeatherData #SupplyChain #BusinessIntelligence

    • A software interface for data analysis displays a query result visualized as a green and blue grid overlay on a map of Las Vegas. A "Visualization configuration" sidebar on the right shows settings for visualization type, geography and data columns, 75% opacity, and a green color scale. The top of the screen shows query status as "Query completed" above tabs for "Job information," "Results," and the selected "Visualization."
  • Join Google Maps Platform Developer Experience engineer Kenneth Nevarez for a Day Planner Agent demo integrating Grounding in Google Maps ➡️ https://goo.gle/4q07ZOf Ken goes through the steps of the build: 👁🗨 Day Planner Agent Demo 🏗️ Architecture Breakdown ✍️ Orchestration and Prompting 🔧 Tooling Best Practices Build trustworthy, hallucination-free AI agents for the real world.

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