# Grounding for Google Maps now available in the Gemini API

<https://blog.google/technology/developers/grounding-google-maps-gemini-api/>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is a smart move by Google to bring their market leadership in Maps to Gemini and open up a whole bunch of use cases that could be created with that rich dataset. Question is will this MCP-like tool capability be made available to any other models? Hmmm…

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