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✨ Introducing 3 new ways to build with real-world imagery and AI → goo.gle/4cZYf1q From the fine details of a city street to a bird's eye view of the planet, at Cloud Next we revealed new ways that businesses can use our Street View, aerial and satellite imagery, and tap into our comprehensive view of the physical world including: 🏙️ Use Maps Imagery Grounding in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to generate location-specific assets at scale, anchored in real-world Street View imagery 🌍 Unlock a new perspective with Aerial and Satellite Insights, part of Earth AI, in BigQuery and Agent Platform to quickly extract detailed info about our changing planet 🛰️ Build custom apps with Aerial and Satellite models in Model Garden from Earth AI that easily identify specific objects or scenes Read the blog at the link above and sign up for early access.

🚨 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 autonomous agents 🏗️ Bridge the gap between AI logic and physical reality 👀 ➡️ goo.gle/3P6C7cV

📢 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 Platform Discord now and be the first to watch ➡️ goo.gle/4umvQZN?

🌍 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

🧊📍 Our 3D Maps and hyper-granular information about places let you deliver the ultimate map experience with: new programmable camera settings custom HTML place markers mesh flattening for a clean canvas Create a photorealistic world, then weave in your brand identity and data ➡️ goo.gle/3RBMSV6

🧠💡 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

📢 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

Learn more about Maps Grounding here ⬇️ goo.gle/4tLKqKb

💡 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

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

🛰️ 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 infrastructure insights. LiDAR data will be available in the coming weeks to provide precise measurements of infrastructure. 🛰️ Imagery is expanding soon to include Aerial and Satellite Insights. When combined with Street View Insights, it provides multi-perspective view of infrastructure including aerial, satellite, and Street View imagery. 🔎 Aerial and Satellite Models are now in Experimental within Model Garden to build custom applications on any high-res aerial or satellite imagery source. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Population Dynamics Insights is available in Preview to help organizations decode the complex relationship between human behavior and the physical world. 🛣️ Roads Management Insights in Preview helps to better understand traffic flow, road closures, and more so authorities and fleets can better plan and react with improved information. 🌞 Solar dataset is now available in BigQuery to provides high-res, building-level data on solar potential and existing arrays to help providers accelerate renewable energy adoption and optimize planning. 🌄 New environment datasets including Air Quality, Pollen, and Weather in experimental enable you to unlock insights through hyper-local historical data, seamlessly integrated into BigQuery. Learn more at the link above about how these datasets can work together to uncover patterns and help organizations to proactively manage outcomes.

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 elevated in the coming weeks with the release of powerful LiDAR data, which includes access to Google Street View's repository of 280B+ 360 degree and 3D images, with more precise measurements to more accurately determine dimensions right from your desk. Learn more and sign up for early access at the link above.

🗞️📢 Announcing the Preview of Population Dynamics Insights (PDI) — a first-of-its-kind geospatial embeddings dataset designed to help organizations decode the complex relationship between human behavior and the physical world ➡️ goo.gle/4vMHZrY PDI, an Earth AI dataset, enables a fundamental shift in how we understand our world, allowing data teams to move away from static maps and census snapshots to dimensional geospatial models. It eliminates the "data wrangling tax" by delivering analysis-ready embeddings directly into BigQuery. PDI embeddings distill millions of aggregated signals including Google search trends, Google Maps popular times, points of interest and environmental conditions into concise vectors, providing a standardized, high-res grid that captures hyper-local nuances for global-scale analysis. Key applications include: → Similarity modeling for optimized site selection to mirror your most successful locations → Cold-start geographic analysis to retain predictive power in new territories → Contextual interpolation to predict missing values from unsampled areas → Unlock super-resolution to zoom in for precise geotargeting → Precision forecasting with time-series models to forecast demand and market shifts 🌐 PDI, now available in 17 countries, provides measurable accuracy improvements across downstream ML tasks in diverse sectors. Learn more and sign up for access at the link above.

🏞️ New environment datasets, part of Google Earth AI, including Air Quality, Pollen, and Weather are now available in experimental ➡️ goo.gle/4cDTYiP We're empowering industries with advanced environmental intelligence to go beyond real-time data and unlock environmental insights through hyper-local, high-res historical data, seamlessly integrated with BigQuery. These datasets build upon our suite of Environment APIs to help organizations transform complex data into actionable insights for proactive planning, improved health outcomes, and robust business resilience. 🌦️ Weather insights dataset offers ~5 years of high-res data, capturing precise details down to 0.1 degrees globally and ~4kms in the U.S. and Europe on an hourly basis 🍃 Air Quality and Pollen insights datasets pinpoint the concentration of pollutants and pollen types down to a 500m or 1km grid, providing the accuracy needed to eliminate "blind spots" Are you ready to explore how you can use these datasets to improve insights? Learn more and sign up for early access at the link above.