Google Maps Ask Maps Can Now Order Food and Book Hotels - Uber Eats and 150 Countries Coming Next
Ask Maps launched in March as a conversational search tool. Today it became a transaction layer - ordering from Toast and Square, booking hotels, and pulling context from your Gmail inbox.
Google Maps Ask Maps can now order food for you. Announced today at a press briefing by Amanda Leicht-Moore, Google Maps senior product director, the Gemini-powered chatbot added three new agentic capabilities: food ordering, hotel booking, and live event discovery. Ask Maps launched as a conversational search layer inside Maps this March - today it becomes a transaction layer too.
Food Ordering Launches With Toast and Square - Uber Eats Joins Later
Uber Eats is not live at launch. Toast and Square are the two partners available today; Uber Eats follows at a later date with no timeline announced. Ask Maps by voice or text - "where can I order vegan avocado toast and an oat milk latte near home?" - surfaces nearby restaurants, lets you pick one, and carries the order through to a completed checkout in a single flow. Toast confirmed separately that orders placed through Ask Maps run through its own first-party system, which means restaurants pay no per-order commission fees to a third-party delivery platform - a meaningful distinction from DoorDash or the incoming Uber Eats integration.
Hotel Discovery Checks Prices in Real Time - Events Work the Same Way
Checkout still happens on the partner's website. For hotels, Ask Maps accepts your criteria - budget, room size, preferred neighborhood - compares real-time pricing and availability across its partners, then hands you off to the partner's site to complete the booking. Concert and comedy show discovery works identically: describe what kind of event you want and Ask Maps surfaces upcoming options nearby.
Personal Intelligence Connects Ask Maps to Gmail - Off by Default
Gmail is the first connected app; Calendar follows later. Turn Personal Intelligence on and Ask Maps can pull context from your inbox before answering - ask for restaurants near your hotel and it checks your Gmail reservation to confirm where you're staying first. Google's AI Mode inside Search already does something similar, creating calendar events from connected apps; Ask Maps extends that same pattern into navigation. Maz Khorasani, Google Maps product director, confirmed the connection "is off by default, and you decide whether to turn it on" - which is less a reassurance than a reminder that users are authorizing a map app to read their email, a trade-off worth pausing on before enabling.
Ask Maps Expands to 150 Countries - Agentic Features Stay US-Only for Now
Ordering food stays US-only for now. Six countries gain access to Google Maps Ask Maps for conversational search today - Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, and Mexico - alongside 150 other countries and territories for English-language queries. Live transit widgets and Personal Intelligence run everywhere Ask Maps is available; Google Maps Immersive Navigation, which launched alongside Ask Maps in March, followed the same staged US-first rollout before expanding.
Transit users also get something new from today's update. Ask Maps now generates live widgets inside its conversational interface - real-time wait times and delays for ferry lines and buses, surfaced inline while you chat. Local Guides can submit business edits through Google Maps Ask Maps by uploading a storefront photo; Ask Maps creates the submission and Google reviews it the same way it handles manual edits. No date exists for when food ordering moves beyond the US.