Overview
- Ask Maps begins answering complex, natural‑language queries with personalized, map‑based results drawn from data on 300+ million places and reviews from over 500 million contributors.
- Immersive Navigation debuts a lane‑level 3D view built from Street View and aerial imagery, adding smart zoom, transparent buildings, more natural voice guidance, and clearer trade‑offs between routes.
- The rollout starts in the United States, with some features live in India, and expands over the coming months to eligible iOS and Android devices, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and cars with Google built‑in.
- Google says strengthened safety controls aim to curb AI hallucinations in Maps, including preventing the invention of non‑existent places.
- Google also introduced Groundsource, a Gemini‑trained dataset and model built from 2.6 million flood records across 150 countries to help predict sudden urban floods up to 24 hours in advance.