Overview
- Ask Maps introduces conversational trip planning and place recommendations that draw on your search history and saved locations inside the app.
- Immersive Navigation renders routes in photorealistic 3D and highlights lanes, crosswalks, traffic lights and other road details using Gemini’s analysis of Street View and aerial imagery.
- Ask Maps is now rolling out on Android and iOS in the United States and India, with desktop access coming later.
- Immersive Navigation starts in the United States and will expand to eligible iOS and Android devices as well as Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and cars with Google built-in.
- Google cites a dataset of more than 300 million places and 500 million contributors and says personalization data stays within the user’s account, while reporters note reliability, safety and privacy concerns and point to similar features in competing apps.