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Maps Agentic UI Toolkit
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Transform LLM reasoning with Google Maps
Enhance AI responses with targeted recommendations and fresh Google Maps information about places, routes and weather.
Customize AI responses with geospatial context
Provide nearby recommendations, answer queries and tailor responses by combining your data with information on 300M+ places worldwide.
Create generative media grounded in physical reality
Anchor AI models in Google’s trusted Street View imagery to create generative media with real-world location accuracy.
Ground your AI in the world’s most trusted geospatial platform
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Access the next generation of geospatial intelligence
Empower your enterprise AI solutions via Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, the Gemini API, and AI Studio. Confidently handle complex geospatial queries by grounding agent responses in fresh Maps information, including insights from millions of user reviews.
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Routing and Search Along Route
With the Routing and Search Along Route (SAR) capabilities, power your AI to optimize multi-stop journeys, proactively recommend points of interest, and provide traffic-aware, real-time estimates along a specific path.
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Grounding with Google Maps in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
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Create conversational, location-based experiences
Infuse AI agents with trusted Google Maps data through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Build conversational experiences with information on places, weather forecasts, and routing details such as distance and travel time. Try this out for free without commitment using Maps Demo Key.
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Multi-model flexibility
For developers building AI agents using a lightweight MCP integration and need essential location facts
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Enterprise functionality built natively on Gemini and Agent Platform
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Core geospatial facts
Place attributes, current weather and forecasts, and routing distance and travel time
Full context
Core geospatial facts, insights from Maps user reviews, and real-time traffic awareness†
Key benefits
Seamless and lightweight
Seamlessly plug into AI agents with a "truth anchor" for Maps data
Rich context and insights
Access real-time insights for traffic, EV charging, weather, and more††
Reduce hallucinations
Tether AI agents to Google Maps data to minimize hallucinations with objective facts
Reduce hallucinations and resolve complex ambiguity
Empower AI agents to navigate complex, subjective questions using deep place understanding
Frictionless utility
Optimized for quick deployment and low-cost scalability
Enterprise-Ready Foundations
Rapidly prototype with AI Studio and Gemini API, then scale on Vertex AI’s mission-critical, enterprise-grade platform
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Free of charge
Up to 10K free calls
Pay-as-you-go
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Up to 5K free calls
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††EV charging and Weather grounding tool available in 2026.
How you can use Grounding with Google Maps and Maps Grounding Lite
Help travelers plan and book their trips
Help travelers decide where to stay, explore what’s nearby, and book faster using Google Maps and AI assistant responses. Offer custom summaries based on user needs on your app or website.
Better inform real estate buyers and renters
Empower buyers and renters by providing neighborhood insights, and enhance responses from AI real estate assistants. Plus, create custom area overviews based on renter profiles on listing pages.
Coordinate every journey
Help groups explore new destinations with confidence, from campus tours to city getaways. Users can collectively research and navigate their surroundings, using conversational insights to make group logistics simple and collaborative.
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Maps Agentic UI Toolkit
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Build Maps experiences into your agentic applications
While text is grounded in Google Maps content, geospatial context is most powerful when experienced visually. This toolkit offers a streamlined destination for agentic instructions and modular A2UI components, bridging the gap between back-end grounding and front-end delivery.
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Transform geospatial imagery into real-world visual experiences
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Ground generative media in physical reality
Maps Imagery Grounding in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform provides an authoritative foundation to ensure your AI-generated content is anchored in real locations. Create high-fidelity, immersive stories, allowing you to seamlessly insert your own subjects with global-scale accuracy, all while reducing production timelines and costs.
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An AI image of a spaceship in a Street View image of Washington Square Park.
Unique scale and perspectives
Unlock unique vantage points, from iconic landmarks to remote locations, enabling camera angles that are physically or logistically impossible to capture otherwise.
Clean canvas innovation
Build your narrative on a distraction-free canvas. Seamlessly insert new subjects to show a property’s potential or a destination’s true character.
Create velocity at scale
Transform production timelines from months to days. Generate high-fidelity, location-accurate content without the cost or complexity of on-site shoots.
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Maps Imagery Grounding
Show your brand in impossible locations
Create hyper-personalized visual assets, placing products or narratives in iconic or remote real-world locations that are challenging to access for traditional campaigns.
Capture the feeling of a destination
Give your audience the feel of a location ahead of time. Whether it’s a new neighborhood or a remote beach, you can create photorealistic visual assets to ground digital experiences in the physical world.
Navigate merchant pickups with ease
Provide users with precise visual context in real time, from identifying specific storefronts to highlighting commercial pickup points directly within the app to reduce dwell time and ensure a seamless handoff.
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