We’re making it easier to navigate roads, intersections, and pathways with visual road details across Maps JavaScript API, Maps SDKs, and Navigation SDK. You’ll now have access to highly detailed road information to help your users understand and navigate their environments better and with more confidence.

Enhancements include:

• Important Details: Pathways and stairs in parks

• Better Visualization: Road widths, centerlines, and medians

• Improved Walkability: Sidewalks and crosswalks

Learn more on our blog and how to get started here .

Are you a Game of Thrones fan? Then you might want to check out the Game of Thrones: Legends mobile game. Zynga partnered with Modern English Digital to design and develop an interactive Google Maps-powered sweepstakes, Dragon Egg Hunt. The sweepstakes was a first-of-its-kind experience, built with the use of Photorealistic 3D Tiles , letting users navigate a world map to find clues and virtual dragon eggs hidden amongst real-world landmarks. Learn more about how they developed the experience .

Are you attending Google Cloud NEXT ‘25 April 9- 11, 2025 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas? Stop by our Google Maps Platform booths. We would love to meet you!

This year we have a lot planned, here’s just a sample of topics you can expect to hear about:

• Data Sharing in BigQuery

• Grounding LLMs in Vertex AI

• AI-driven geospatial analytics

• Live Demos including “Plan an evening in Vegas with Maps Platform & AI”

Check out the full list of sessions and where to find us here .

We would be remiss to end this month’s edition without sharing a big thank you to our former Google Maps Platform Innovator newsletter Editor, Kate! Thank you for all the dedication, hard work, and passion you put into our Innovators community. We wish you all the best on your next journey!