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Google Maps Platform

Google Maps Platform

Technology, Information and Internet

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.

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mapsplatform.google.com
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Company size
10,001+ employees

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  • There's a whole new way to work on Earth. 🌎 https://goo.gle/47ZSkGT Combining iconic imagery with professional-grade data, no-code tools, and Gemini capabilities, Google Earth empowers professionals to validate reality remotely, de-risk projects early, and make better, faster decisions. For decades users across the world have trusted Google Earth’s ground-breaking imagery of the real world. In today’s world, decisions are moving faster than traditional analysis can keep up. Google Earth is evolving to meet this challenge and save you time at work.

  • Ask Google Earth is now directly integrated with our data catalog. Try these 3 prompts to shortcut your path to insight: https://goo.gle/4caHjDW 🔍 Terrain assessment: ""Help me visualize elevation in Golden, Colorado."" 📍 Urban planning: ""Map out the EV chargers and driveway counts near Jacksonville, Florida.” 🏗️ Site selection: ""Visualize zoning information for Phoenix, Arizona."" Manually finding, formatting, and combining geospatial data takes hours of work. Our mission is to eliminate that busywork entirely. Today, we got a little closer. Just use natural language to ask for the data you’re looking for, and watch Ask Google Earth visualize the required layers directly onto your canvas. Turning manual research into instant insights. (Note: Ask Google Earth is currently available in Experimental to US users on the web).

  • 🛒 Ever wished you had an AI grocery shopper to build your cart based on personal needs and tastes? That's the concept that won the students behind MagiCart the silver award in Google Maps Platform Awards' retail category ➡️ https://goo.gle/4cxlRdx 🏅 The AI-powered shopping tool was created by Kelvin Mathew, Vaidic Soni, and Meidad Troper. The team designed MagiCart to help users save on groceries with consideration to factors such as proximity, budget, nutrition and more.

  • 🦾 Street View Insights transforms our repository of over 280 billion 360° and 3D images into actionable infrastructure intelligence. See it in action ➡️ https://goo.gle/3O3Wff8 Reduce costly, time-consuming field surveys and improve workflows with AI-powered insights, using Google Maps Platform imagery integrated with BigQuery and Vertex AI. 🧠 Our platform automatically turns physical reality into structured, queryable data, providing deep insights into specific assets like road signs, utility poles, and attached equipment, such as transformer models and wireless antennas. Check out the demo at the link above.

  • Google Maps Platform reposted this

    The new 'Flatten the Mesh' feature makes it incredibly easy to add custom architecture to a photorealistic 3D map! If you've ever tried placing custom models onto a map, you know that existing buildings or trees can get in the way. Now, you can remove the default 3D structures—while keeping the underlying terrain and elevation intact—creating a perfectly clean canvas for your own assets. This new feature from Google Maps Platform is going to be a massive workflow boost for architectural visualization and city planners who need to preview new developments in their exact real-world context without fighting the default map geometry. The demo above shows the Bieberhaus in Hamburg where our Ubilabs office is located, and what a different building would look like in its place. And to be honest, I prefer the current style! 

  • 🫨🚫 Remove the friction from your coding process with Antigravity and Google Maps Platform Code Assist toolkit. Supercharge your setup in less than a minute with Caio Moreira ➡️ https://goo.gle/49obPZp Once it's up and running, you'll be able to prompt it with queries like, "Build a React Google Maps in dark mode." The results will use the latest Google Maps Platform documentation and GitHub repos. 🔋

  • Beautiful new raster data layers are now available on Google Earth’s intuitive, no-code canvas. 🗺️👉 https://goo.gle/4m7JE71 Efficiency stalls when you have to toggle between GIS tools to get a complete picture. Often this even requires multiple teammates trying to work in siloed tools. We are bridging that gap. With the analytical power of Google Earth Engine directly integrated into Google Earth, geospatial analysis is as easy as point and click. Rolling out over the coming days, you will have access to ten new raster layers from Earth Engine's iconic data catalog, including: • Slope • Aspect • Land cover • and more It's never been easier to quickly combine raster data, vector data, imagery, and your own data to save time and make better decisions. Explore these new data layers, now.

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