Google Maps Can Now Order Your Dinner and Track Your Train Delays

Google today added caller agentic capabilities to the Gemini-powered "Ask Maps" adjunct successful the Google Maps app.


Ask Maps tin implicit multi-step tasks, specified arsenic ordering a repast for you connected your mode home. Google says you tin simply accidental thing similar "order spicy pad kee mao with seafood for maine to prime up connected my mode home," and Maps volition find unfastened restaurants on your route, fto you prime one, and adhd the crockery you asked for to your cart truthful you tin reappraisal it and cheque out.

Food ordering is rolling retired contiguous with partners similar Square and Toast, with Uber Eats integration coming soon.

Ask Maps tin besides look up accusation astir hotels and events erstwhile you're traveling, comparing prices successful existent clip and checking availability for a hotel, past offering up ideas connected things to bash nearby.

Google says its unrecorded updates are coming to transit. A transit widget successful Ask Maps offers up-to-the-minute accusation astir delays for bus, train, subway, and ferry rides.

A caller Personal Intelligence enactment successful Ask Maps allows the diagnostic to link to Gmail to origin successful upcoming plans without needing circumstantial instruction. Connecting to Gmail is opt-in and disconnected by default. Ask Maps tin besides retrieve anterior conversations for discourse if past settings are turned on.

There's a conversational edits enactment for suggesting caller details for the Ask Maps feature. You tin archer Maps astir an insider extremity and Ask Maps volition connection the accusation to others successful the community.

Ask Maps is besides expanding to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, and Mexico, on with implicit 150 countries and territories successful English.

The unrecorded transit widget, personalized responses, and speech representation are rolling retired everyplace Ask Maps is available. Food ordering, discovering hotels and events, and conversational contributions are rolling retired successful the U.S., with much countries acceptable to beryllium added later.

Ask Maps is disposable connected the web and successful the Google Maps app for iOS.
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