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Google Maps Platform
Technology, Information and Internet
Build geospatial apps with robust APIs and SDKs, powered by global data that’s updated 100 million times daily.
About us
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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External link for Google Maps Platform
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- Technology, Information and Internet
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- 10,001+ employees
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We're live from #GoogleIOConnect India at 10am IST 🎥 → https://lnkd.in/gpYif5pw Join us to hear directly from developers and Googlers on how they’re building with the latest tools. From real-world demos to hands-on insights, there’s something for every dev.
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Deploy solar panels faster with advanced solar data and rooftop imagery using Solar API from Google Maps Platform! → https://goo.gle/40uC1y5 Take advantage of: 🌇 Aerial imagery 🏘️ Rooftop Analysis 🏢 Building Analysis 💻 Solar Panel Array Design 🌳 Shading Analysis 🔋 Solar Energy Potential
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⏲️ Just 10 days left to get your project submitted to the Google Maps Platform Awards! 🏆 Join the excitement now for your chance to win prizes and meet our team → https://lnkd.in/eynjPmdi
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🚨 The new Places UI Kit is live ➡️ https://goo.gle/3Iysd01 Our ready-to-use component library brings the Google Maps UI for Places to your map of choice. For the first time, you can incorporate the Google Maps Places UI on or next to a non-Google map. Join Teresa Qin at the link to learn how to quickly enable the Places Ui Kit API with just a few lines of code.
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🏪 Help customers discover what places are close with Nearby Search API → https://goo.gle/3Ur2I33 Add Google places information to your maps so users can make better decisions by understanding what key locations are in proximity to a specified area. #GoogleMapsPlatform #Maps #NearbySearchAPI #Developers
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🚛 Real-time weather data is transforming industries: From delivery route optimization to weather-aware marketing and personalized beauty recommendations, our Weather API helps businesses like L'Oréal adapt, communicate, and operate more efficiently ➡️ https://goo.gle/4nZogBK
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For the first time, use Places content on non-Google maps. Places UI Kit is now Generally Available ➡️ https://goo.gle/46g9hwQ 🫳Access content on over 250 million places at low-cost and customize to your brand using our trusted, familiar Google Maps UI 🔍Create engaging exploration and discovery experiences with minimal code 🌏 Use with 3D maps to build stunning, immersive experiences Learn more and start building at the link.
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👀 Have you joined yet? Don't miss your chance to win at the inaugural GMP Awards - submissions open through July 31! → https://lnkd.in/gCUE4DGW
Map the Frontier | TED Curator/Host | AI/VFX Creator (1.5M+) | A16z Scout | Ex-Google PM (AR/VR & 3D Maps)
Stoked to be judging the Google Maps Platform Awards! If vibe coding next-gen maps experiences sounds like your jam, submit your project by July 31. Particularly keen to see useful & delightful applications of 3D tiles, web rendering, and VLMs. Tons of amazing primitives to play with across a broad swath of award categories. Think 3d geometry + 2d basemap + local POI data + routing. Heck even Earth Engine is in play if you want to go full geospatial intelligence. Whether it's an AI centric or immersive, real estate or retail, there's probably a reward category for it. Link to website in comments below.
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🌎📈 Google’s rich geospatial data, powerful cloud computing, and AI-powered tools are making it easier for geospatial professionals to unlock insights that lead to more informed and faster decisions, stronger growth, and a more sustainable world ➡️ https://goo.gle/44AmwqY Discover our new, enhanced portfolio of easy-to-use geospatial datasets and tools, AI capabilities, and planetary-scale insights from Google Maps Platform, including: Earth Engine in Big Query Places Insights Imagery Insights Roads Management Insights For the first time, we’re integrating new Google Maps Platform datasets, along with Earth Engine datasets and capabilities, directly into BigQuery, to make it easier for data analysts and decision makers to access insights. And, no GIS experience or training is needed. 🎊