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Dive deeper into Google Maps Platform, including product and feature announcements and real-world applications.
Apr 30, 2025
3D Maps for JavaScript API now in Preview: start building your own immersive maps experience today


Apr 9, 2025
What's new with Google Maps Platform? Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI, and Weather
Apr 9, 2025
Power your AI responses with Google Maps: Grounding with Google Maps is now available in Vertex AI
Mar 13, 2025
Introducing road level details in the Maps Javascript API, Maps SDKs, and Navigation SDKs
Apr 10, 2025
Introducing Places Insights in BigQuery: Discover actionable insights to help drive business growth
Nov 13, 2024
Places Insights API now in preview: Surface deeper insights of an area to help users make smarter decisions
Sep 4, 2024
New SDKs from Google Maps Platform support more type-safe and simpler Swift code for iOS apps
May 14, 2024
Provide AI-powered place and area summaries, with Gemini model capabilities for Places API
Jun 28, 2023
Launching Address Descriptors to make it easier to find addresses using landmarks in Indian cities
Oct 21, 2021
Sayurbox reduces itinerary and job assignments from one day to less than ten minutes using Google Maps Platform
Dec 1, 2020
Licious delivers high quality meat products to the doorstep with help from Google Maps Platform
Nov 17, 2020
Your questions about Local Context answered
Aug 20, 2020
Supporting Kotlin Google Maps Platform Developers
Jun 11, 2020
Install Maps & Places SDK for iOS Using Carthage
May 12, 2020
Temporary closures now available in the Places API
Apr 28, 2020
Introducing Plus Codes in Place Autocomplete, Place Details and Geocoding to help you serve users everywhere
Jul 25, 2019
New Autocomplete features in Google Maps Platform help your users make faster decisions
Jan 29, 2019
Introducing new, improved Places SDKs
May 2, 2018
Introducing Google Maps Platform
Dec 21, 2016
Geolocation and Firebase for the Internet of Things
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