Opening a new business location is a major commitment, yet many people still rely on old-school research methods to guide their decisions. To beat your competitors to prime real estate, you need a modern approach. Enter Places Insights in BigQuery. With this powerful tool, your team can choose winning business locations that drive sales and accelerate growth. Let’s take a look at how it works. Why Your Business Should Ditch the Manual Research If you’re using static maps

From planning major infrastructure to assessing the impact of natural disasters, businesses and urban planners rely on robust mapping tools to understand the real world. Today, those capabilities are expanding significantly. Google has introduced three powerful AI updates to its imagery products, helping organisations visualise and analyse geospatial information faster than ever before. Here is a look at the new tools transforming how we build with real-world data. Grounding

To move beyond simple chat interfaces, AI agents require two foundational layers to be truly effective. First, they need a grounding truth layer to anchor their reasoning in the physical world. Second, they require a visual interface to communicate that information through an intuitive, interactive experience. At Cloud Next, Google announced a new portfolio that provides a dedicated geospatial intelligence layer. Here is a look at the tools helping you turn complex AI text in

Understanding the complex relationship between human behaviour and the physical world is critical for modern organisations. However, relying on static maps and decade-old census snapshots is no longer sufficient. At Cloud Next, Google introduced the Preview of Population Dynamics Insights (PDI), a new Google Earth AI dataset available via Google Maps Platform. Powered by Google Research's Population Dynamics Foundation Model, PDI is a first-of-its-kind geospatial embeddings d