Google Launches AI Tool Connecting Gemini API to Maps Data for 250 Million Locations
Summary
Google launches Grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API, enabling developers to build location-aware AI applications that tap into geospatial data from over 250 million places for enhanced travel planning, real estate insights, and hyper-local recommendations.
Key Points
- Google launches Grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API, allowing developers to connect AI applications with geospatial data from over 250 million places
- Developers can now build location-aware AI products for travel, real estate, retail and logistics that provide detailed itinerary planning, hyper-local recommendations, and place-based answers using Maps data
- The tool can be combined with Grounding with Google Search for enhanced responses, with Maps providing structured data like addresses and hours while Search adds contextual information from across the web