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 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gtj8cmyb It was a blast getting to meet so many enthusiastic devs in person — we can't wait to keep innovating with you! Learn more at the link above.
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Over the past 20 years, mobile and location has transformed what businesses can do and how their customers experience the world. Google Maps Platform has been fortunate to play a role in this evolution. Explore how you can visualize and understand the real world with our products. Learn how we can help you immerse audiences in new ways, improve user experiences and operations, and access insights to make faster, more informed business and sustainability decisions. Create geospatial experiences and applications with robust APIs and SDKs, access insights and enable decisions with rich, analysis-ready geospatial datasets, and utilize no-code geospatial evaluation and analysis tools from Google Earth to enable faster, more holistic decision making and seamless collaboration. Go beyond the map with Google Maps Platform. Follow to get the latest news and insights, and celebrate 20 years of geospatial progress with Google Maps Platform, Google Earth and Google Earth Engine.
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Imagery Insights significantly expands, leveraging innovation from Google Earth AI, to help you transform how you understand our planet and make decisions ➡️ https://goo.gle/4sQ92Qr 🦅 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 transform 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.
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🗞️📢 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 ➡️ https://goo.gle/42qXoRh 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.
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🏞️ New environment datasets, part of Google Earth AI, including Air Quality, Pollen, and Weather are now available in experimental ➡️ https://goo.gle/4cF26zI 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.
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Introducing a suite of new Roads Management Insights capabilities for the public and private sectors: We're connecting the agencies that maintain roads with commercial fleets that drive on them ➡️ https://goo.gle/4vNHXAf We're bringing two powerful new data layers from Google Earth AI to the Roads Managements Insights (RMI) portfolio in Preview in the coming weeks: ⚠️ Get timely info about Road Disruptions with early signal detection and infrastructure awareness 🚗 Use Vehicle Counts to understand traffic volume, identify safety improvements, and manage congestion In modern supply chains, the "middle mile" is where margins can be made or lost. RMI can help you protect your margins with precision planning for route variants and by identifying disruptions before they cascade through your fleet. And, dispatchers can analyze live disruptions to identify high-risk zones and secondary accident queues. Learn more at the link above.
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🦾 We're powering the next era of agentic experience with our new grounding capabilities → https://goo.gle/4txi1aC 🗺️ Grounding Lite: A portable and powerful way to bring the power of Google Maps to LLMs via MCP is now generally available ⚡ Grounding with Google Maps: Now extends beyond location data to include routing capabilities, available in private preview in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Gemini API, and Google AI Studio 📷 Maps Imagery Grounding: Anchors generative AI in Google Maps’ Street View imagery, providing developers a clean canvas to build location-specific assets within the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform 💬 Maps Agentic UI Toolkit: Bring Maps Grounding data to life with this toolkit that serves as the geospatial visualization intelligence layer that gives your AI agents a "visual voice" Learn more in our grounding blog at the link above.
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Today at #GoogleCloudNext we’re introducing three new ways to help businesses and urban planners understand the physical world faster than ever before: 📍Maps Imagery Grounding: We're helping creative agencies and brands anchor their generative AI scenes in the real-world details of Google Street View. WPP is currently testing this to create immersive ads for clients. 🌍Aerial and Satellite Insights: Cities often spend weeks manually reviewing satellite images to track trends – now they can do this in minutes, with aerial and satellite imagery datasets in Google Maps Platform 🏙️ Imagery Models: We’re introducing new Earth AI models in Google Cloud’s Model Garden that identify specific objects - like bridges, roads and power lines. It’s a gamechanger for businesses like Vantor which can now skip months of work training AI from scratch. Read more 👉https://lnkd.in/gxhTaPCv
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🤯 We're excited to reveal our new and expanded geospatial imagery products and datasets at Cloud Next that improve insights and understanding using AI ➡️ https://goo.gle/490SfDa Use Google Maps Platform data to build your own products with new Imagery Grounding and Imagery Insights. Explore new opportunities to: ⚡️ Create location-specific assets at scale with Maps Imagery Grounding in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform: Anchor generative media in Street View imagery to reflect real-world architectural and geographic context. 🛰️ Access deeper insights from the streets to the planet with Aerial and Satellite Insights. These Earth AI datasets will be available in the coming weeks, making our vast, high-resolution imagery available for global analysis. 🌐 Use Aerial and Satellite AI models from Earth AI to identify sites without having to train or maintain complex AI models and pair it with your own data. Read the Cloud Next blog at the link above.
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✨ Introducing 3 new ways to build with real-world imagery and AI → https://goo.gle/4sNbze8 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.
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Happy Earth Day! Today, we are celebrating the work happening across Google Earth, Google Earth Engine, and our Sustainability teams. https://goo.gle/4crxX8i In this blog post, we're looking under the hood to share exactly how our teams are generating cutting edge research and technology, and more importantly how you can use these tools to get deeper insights about our planet. #GoogleDoodle #GoogleEarth #GoogleEarthEngine