AI Rewrites Maps: Gemini Ingests 250M Data Points
Gemini API now taps 250M Google Places: real-time restaurant, route & travel AI answers.
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Google just pulled off something big!
Starting today, all developers can call Google Maps tools through the Gemini API to easily integrate location-aware features into their applications.
Put simply, now whenever your application has anything to do with “location,” Gemini can instantly access Google Maps’ massive geographic database—connecting to 250 million places.
This means whether it’s restaurant recommendations, route planning, real estate site selection, or travel itinerary planning, AI can answer directly based on real-time map data.
According to Google’s documentation, the models currently supporting this feature include: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Gemini 2.0 Flash (but not 2.0 Flash Lite).
API fees are charged based on query count—the current rate is $25 per 1,000 grounded prompts, where “grounded” means at least one result comes from Google Maps.
Note that if multiple queries are sent to Google Maps in one request, these queries count as only a single request.