Google Maps Platform | Mapping the future

March 09, 2026

Google Maps Platform - MAPPING THE FUTURE | From idea to innovation, accelerated by Google AI | Enable faster decision-making with AI-ready analytics | Planning, design and decision-making starts on Earth |Google Maps Solar Data: Millions More Buildings, Sharper Insights | Bring locations to life with immersive, real-world 3D Maps | Scribble Maps is building for the future with AI

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Planning, design and decision-making starts on Earth

Google Maps Solar Data: Millions More Buildings, Sharper Insights

Bring locations to life with immersive, real-world 3D Maps

Scribble Maps is building for the future with AI

MAPPING THE FUTURE

NOVEMBER 2025

From idea to innovation, accelerated by Google AI

We’re introducing even more AI products and tools to help you transform ideas into innovations, grounded in Google’s fresh, real-world data and cutting-edge technology. Build faster and smarter with all-new AI agents including Builder agent and Maps Styling agent. Code with confidence using new developer tools including Code Assist Toolkit, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enhances the responses from large language models (LLMs). Build more engaging applications for the agentic era with Contextual View, a Google Maps AI Kit component. Your AI is only as smart as its data - Ground it in reality with AI-powered summaries that provide rich context, and Geospatial Analytics that deliver operational awareness.

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Enable faster decision-making with AI-ready analytics

Places Insights datasets, now generally available, empower businesses to make smarter and faster decisions by leveraging Google’s rich Places data directly within BigQuery. It brings together Google’s rich Places data—including detailed aggregated information about businesses, landmarks and points of interest, based on attributes like business hours, place types, price level and user ratings—with the robust analytical capabilities of Google Cloud’s BigQuery for statistical analysis.

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Planning, design and decision-making starts on Earth

With our new Professional and Professional Advanced plans for Google Earth, you can unlock AI-powered data layers and unique information from Google, large-scale project capabilities, and advanced geospatial analysis. With Google Earth’s powerful visualization and seamless collaboration capabilities, these plans help you transform projects into real world solutions faster and with greater confidence.

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Google Maps Solar Data: Millions More Buildings, Sharper Insights

The Solar API dataset just got a major refresh. With millions of new buildings added worldwide, the latest update expands coverage and improves accuracy with sharper roof segmentation, more precise building footprints, and refined height data.

Updated energy models now deliver more accurate rooftop positioning and hourly performance insights. From design to deployment, we’re helping the world transition to cleaner power sources with confidence.

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Bring locations to life with immersive, real-world 3D Maps

3D Maps is now generally available on Maps JavaScript API, empowering businesses and developers to bring locations to life with immersive, photorealistic 3D experiences at unprecedented scale and detail.

With environments and powerful customization, 3D Maps enables developers to build immersive experiences that engage users, drive informed decisions, and differentiate their brands through immersive storytelling.

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Scribble Maps is building for the future with AI

With ScribbleSight users can create custom, weighted scores for any mapping need, such as vacation planning or retail site selection. Using the Places Aggregate API, Scribble Maps factors in both positive and negative attributes like reviews, price, and environmental data to not only inform users of the quantity of attributes, but also the quality of attributes in a given area.