Key Takeaways Google Maps introduces Ask Maps for AI-powered search and weather alerts.
Other updates feature improved navigation detail and weather reporting while maintaining core features.
Waze testing Conversational Reporting, which should expand to Google Maps in the future. ✕ Remove Ads
Google has been hard at work wedging Gemini into every product it can for nearly a year now, and this week, it’s Google Maps’ turn. Google announced a slew of updates to Google Maps, Google Earth, and Waze today, headlined by a new Ask Maps feature in Google Maps that uses Gemini’s natural language capabilities to answer questions about nearby places. Waze is also testing a handy new option to report road hazards in natural language — a feature that Google Maps VP and GM Miriam Daniel tells me will also make its way to Maps someday.
Maps gets AI-powered search, weather condition alerts, more
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The new Ask Maps reminds me a lot of the similarly named Ask Photos, a Gemini-powered feature in Google Photos that lets you ask questions to get answers from your Photos library. Ask Maps works similarly: you can ask Google Maps for specific things — Google uses the example of
Google Maps picks up Gemini integration to answer travel questions
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