A new Google Maps update coming soon brings a ton of new Gemini features to help make plans with friends and family, alongside simpler navigation.

Google Maps just got a huge upgrade, and it might be one of the biggest ever. In a recent post, Google detailed two features -- Ask Gemini and Immersive Navigation. The first lets you find answers to questions with AI, while the second provides a totally new driving experience.

We’ve already seen mapping functionality make its way into the ChatGPT and Gemini apps, but the big mapping apps haven’t had much use for AI–until now, anyway. Google has just announced Ask Maps, a new “conversational experience” for Google Maps that puts Gemini front and center,

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Google Maps today announced “Ask Maps” to answer your “complex, real-world questions a map could never answer before.”

I have never seen anything so crass.